Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Thursday, 12th February? You may be stuck in a Connections quagmire at the moment, but this guide will get you out. Don’t let your dreams of a glorious Connections victory get crushed by tricky themes; a few handy hints and giveaway words can make all the difference.
Time to have another go at today’s puzzle challenge, or scroll down to find the full Connections solution.
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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).
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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:
- A
- CARD
- DAIRY
- DANCING
- DRAG
- FAST
- FIRM
- FORM
- FROZEN
- JAY
- MAKE
- MAY
- MOLD
- PRODUCE
- TIGHT
- YANK
Connections hint for Thursday 12th February
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: They’re similar to “crafting”.
- Green: Find opposites of “loose”.
- Blue: It’s related to a popular sport.
- Purple: Add someone “highborn”.
- Extra hint 1: Every theme except blue contains at least two words starting with the same letter.
- Extra hint 2: “Yank” and “drag” 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: Produce
- Green: Firm
- Blue: Jay
- Purple: Dancing
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: Construct
- Green: Fixed In Place
- Blue: MLB Player, For Short
- Purple: ___ Queen
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, 12th February:
- Yellow: Construct (Form, Make, Mold, Produce)
- Green: Fixed In Place (Fast, Firm, Frozen, Tight)
- Blue: MLB Player, For Short (A, Card, Jay, Yank)
- Purple: ___ Queen (Dairy, Dancing, Drag, May)
Thank you, NYT, for including “dancing” and “drag” in the purple theme. It wasn’t nearly as hard for me to add “queen” as it would’ve been without those two words. I’ve no idea what a “dairy queen” is supposed to be, but since it sounds a lot better than “produce queen” or “mold queen”, it seemed an obvious fit.
“Firm” and “tight” formed another Connections link that stood out to me today, as did “make” and “produce”. The synonyms themes are usually easier to solve compared to any other kind of theme – you just need to look for similar words.
The MLB theme was hopeless, however, as I didn’t know what the words were referring to. Again, it’s an American sports federation (baseball, this time) that trips me up. If you’d like to gain an edge over your fellow theme-guessers, learn as much as you can about sports themes and their players – movies would also be good.
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!