Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Saturday, 21st February? There’s no use crying over lost Connections streaks. Not that you will have to worry about that! Consider us your ‘phone a friend’ and check out our Connections hints below!
We’ve got all you need to succeed in yet another Connections puzzle, so you can save your streak along with the last of your sanity.
In this guide:
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”. These are the kinds of Connections you’ll need to make to solve the puzzle.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
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Connections hint: Today’s Connections words
Below you’ll find various hints for today’s Connections. Each of the below hints will make it progressively easier for you to solve today’s puzzle. First we’ll reveal the words in today’s Connections, followed by our Connections hint for each group. Then we’ll reveal one word inside each group, followed by the groups themselves; and finally, at the bottom of this page, we’ll reveal the answers to today’s Connections puzzle. Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
- BACKGROUND
- INFINITIVE
- ABSENT
- AUDITS
- DODGERS
- EXCUSED
- GREAT
- HISTORY
- LATE
- LIFE
- MINION
- PAST
- PERFECT
- PHEW
- PRESENT
- SOLID
Connections hint for Saturday 21st February
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Shadows of the past that shape the present.
- Green: Often heard by children.
- Blue: Things you might mutter after a solve.
- Purple: Brand names with a little *extra*.
- Extra hint 1: Not all words are what they seem.
- Extra hint 2: Each group has a word containing the letter ‘E’.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: History
- Green: Present
- Blue: Phew
- Purple: Audits
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
Connections hints: All of today’s Connections groups
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Experience
- Green: Attendance Status
- Blue: Commentary About Your Connections Results
- Purple: Car Brands Plus Two Letters
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
Connections answer today
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Saturday, 21st February:
- Yellow: Experience (Background, History, Life, Past)
- Green: Attendance Status (Absent, Excused, Late, Present)
- Blue: Commentary About Your Connections Results (Great, Perfect, Phew, Solid)
- Purple: Car Brands Plus Two Letters (Audits, Dodgers, Infinitive, Minion)
Well, this Connections had me jumping through hoops, that’s for sure. Someone please tell me I am not the only one who stubbornly refused to put ‘Past’ and ‘Present’ in different groups? I was thoroughly convinced they would be together, but once I picked up on the roll call aspect, I was finally able to let that go.
My biggest hurdle, however, was the purple group. I must say, I am not much of a car enthusiast, myself, which was probably the root of most of my problems. ‘Dodgers’ had me thinking of sports teams, ‘Minion’ had me thinking of ‘Despicable Me’, and, unfortunately, none of them had me thinking of cars!
Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!