Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Sunday, 15th February? The Connections theme-guessing challenges can sometimes feel like an uphill battle, but you don’t have to find the answers on your own. No matter if it’s two, three, or four themes you’re missing, this guide will help you find them.
Have a look at the hints below; they’ll keep your Connections streak quite safe.
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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).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
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:
- CALLIOPE
- SUPERIORITY
- INFERIORITY
- DICTIONARY
- THESAURUS
- REMINDER
- ENCYCLOPEDIA
- RINGMASTER
- ATLAS
- BUZZARD
- DIALECT
- ECHO
- ELECTRA
- OEDIPUS
- TRACE
- VESTIGE
Connections hint for Sunday 15th February
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: “Let me look that up.”
- Green: It’s in the past.
- Blue: This is a… complex theme.
- Purple: Focus on the first part.
- Extra hint 1: Every group except purple contains a word starting with an “E”.
- Extra hint 2: Oedipus and Calliope are in different groups.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Thesaurus
- Green: Reminder
- Blue: Electra
- Purple: Ringmaster
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: Reference Books
- Green: Something That Brings Back Memories
- Blue: Kinds Of Complexes
- Purple: Starting With Ways To Reach Someone Via Phone
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 Sunday, 15th February:
- Yellow: Reference Books (Atlas, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Thesaurus)
- Green: Something That Brings Back Memories (Echo, Reminder, Trace, Vestige)
- Blue: Kinds Of Complexes (Electra, Inferiority, Oedipus, Superiority)
- Purple: Starting With Ways To Reach Someone Via Phone (Buzzard, Calliope, Dialect, Ringmaster)
No, “ringmaster” has nothing to do with Frodo. Why don’t we ever get a Lord of the Rings theme in the Connections puzzles? I would definitely solve such a riddle.
Speaking of fictional characters, I thought I might’ve found a Greek mythology theme when I spotted “Oedipus”, but after I added Electra, Atlas, Echo, and Calliope to that theme, I realised I had one too many entries. At this point, I had also noticed the connection between “atlas” and “encyclopedia”, so I focused on completing the “reference books” theme instead.
Going back to Oedipus, I tried adding “complex”, which helped me find the blue theme. I then turned “Echo” into “remembrance” and fixed green as well. No need to fuss over Calliope and the ringmaster anymore!
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!