Need a hint for today’s Connections on Saturday, 20th December? It would be nice if this guide could 100% guarantee your next Connections victory, but even though it can’t, you’ll at least have a far higher chance of finding the answers. Well, unless you scroll all the way down to the puzzle solution, of course – that will guarantee your victory.
Look at the hints, tips, and word reveals below, and give it another try!
In this guide:
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| BOTTOM | BUCKET | CAN | CLASH |
| CURE | DAMNED | DRUM | DRY |
| FALL | FOLD | LOBSTER | MUSIC |
| PRESS | SALT | TIN | WASH |
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”.
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 for Saturday 20th December
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Look for storage.
- Green: It’s all part of the same hygienic process.
- Blue: Look for sources of music.
- Purple: Add a stone.
- Extra hint 1: Every theme except purple contains a word starting with “D”.
- Extra hint 2: One of the themes is about the UK.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Tin
- Green: Fold
- Blue: Damned
- Purple: Salt
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are 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: Containers
- Green: Laundry Services
- Blue: British Bands Formed In The 1970’s, With “The”
- Purple: Rock ___
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!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Saturday, 20th December:
- Yellow: Containers (Bucket, Can, Drum, Tin)
- Green: Laundry Services (Dry, Fold, Press, Wash)
- Blue: British Bands Formed In The 1970’s, With “The” (Clash, Cure, Damned, Fall)
- Purple: Rock ___ (Bottom, Lobster, Music, Salt)
I might’ve completed the first theme in record time had it not been for “drum”, which wasn’t as obviously intended to be a “container” as “tin” or “can”. Still, this wasn’t the hardest yellow theme I’ve seen in the Connections puzzles lately.
I don’t mind a slightly easier theme in today’s puzzle, though, as I struggled enough with the remaining three. I suspected a band theme when I saw “cure” and “clash”, but failed to discover the other group members. Likewise, I thought of “rock bottom” and “rock music”, but “rock lobster” wouldn’t come to mind.
Not even the laundry service theme was simple, as I just didn’t think of laundry for the longest time. I did solve that one, eventually, but especially a word like “press” isn’t the kind of word I’d immediately associate with washing clothes.
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!