Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Thursday, 26th February? You’re not alone. Connections is supposed to be a light exercise to get your brain up and running. But sometimes, one or more of those groups can turn the exercise into a marathon sprint.
The last thing you need is to spend five hours on a Connections puzzle, so lets work through it together so you can get back to enjoying your Thursday!
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).
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:
- SHAMROCK
- DRUMROLL
- ATTENTION
- STATUE OF LIBERTY
- CALLBACK
- CROSSROADS
- PUNCHLINE
- MILESTONE
- WATERSHED
- GRASSHOPPER
- LANDMARK
- CHECK
- PRETTY
- SETUP
- TIMING
- WASABI
Connections hint for Thursday 26th February
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Moments or places where things change.
- Green: The various shades of this very group.
- Blue: The mechanics behind your laughter.
- Purple: Can you hear it?
- Extra hint 1: Not every group relies on definition.
- Extra hint 2: Each group contains at least one word containing the letter ‘I’ or ‘E’.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Milestone
- Green: Shamrock
- Blue: Setup
- Purple: Pretty
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: Pivotal Point
- Green: Green Things
- Blue: Elements of Joke-Telling
- Purple: \___ Please\
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 Thursday, 26th February:
- Yellow: Pivotal Point (Crossroads, Landmark, Milestone, Watershed)
- Green: Green Things (Grasshopper, Shamrock, Statue of Liberty, Wasabi)
- Blue: Elements of Joke-Telling (Callback, Punchline, Setup, Timing)
- Purple: \___ Please\ (Attention, Check, Drumroll, Pretty)
This puzzle was a wonderful combination of imagery and structure. I always tend to think too far into things when I am completing Connections, and I did exactly that here. The thought that group green would simply be things that are green was so deceptively obvious that it completely went over my head!
There is usually only one group based on wordplay of some sort (pretty please enters the scene), so after I got those connections ticked off the list, I wasn’t looking for any more trickery. That just goes to show, you can never get too comfortable with Connections!
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!
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