Today's Connections has four hidden groups of four. Start with a gentle nudge and only open more if you need it.
Hint 1: One word from each group
Each of these words belongs to a different group.
- Yellow (easiest): POWDER KEG
- Green: ANTIFREEZE
- Blue: HOME FRIES
- Purple (hardest): BAKING SODA
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Potentially Explosive Things.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Double Vowels.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Made With Potatoes.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Household Stain Removers.
Show all four answers
Potentially Explosive Things
POWDER KEG, TIME BOMB, TINDERBOX, VOLCANO
Double Vowels
ANTIFREEZE, BAZAAR, SKIING, VACUUM
Made With Potatoes
HOME FRIES, POTATO BATTERY, VICHYSSOISE, VODKA
Household Stain Removers
BAKING SODA, CLUB SODA, HYDROGEN PEROXIDE, VINEGAR
About this puzzle
- Edited by Wyna Liu
- Groups are listed from easiest (yellow) to hardest (purple).
Connections deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Why each word belongs in its group, with a short dictionary meaning where one exists.
Yellow (easiest): Potentially Explosive Things
- POWDER KEG: (figuratively) An explosive or otherwise volatile situation.
- TIME BOMB: A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.
- TINDERBOX: (historical) A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to...
- VOLCANO: A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the man...
Green: Double Vowels
- ANTIFREEZE: (automotive) Automotive antifreeze, a solution of ethylene glycol, used as an additive to water or replacement for wa...
- BAZAAR: A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.
- SKIING: (sports) A group of sports using skis as primary equipment.
- VACUUM: A region of space that contains no matter.
Blue: Made With Potatoes
- HOME FRIES: a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed by Dean Parisot, and starring Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson.
- POTATO BATTERY
- VICHYSSOISE: A thick, creamy soup made from potato, leeks, onions, and chicken stock, and normally served cold.
- VODKA: A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash.
Purple (hardest): Household Stain Removers
- BAKING SODA: Sodium bicarbonate.
- CLUB SODA: (Canada, US) A carbonated beverage consisting mainly of carbonated water, with or without a few other minor ingredien...
- HYDROGEN PEROXIDE: (inorganic chemistry) A colourless liquid, H₂O₂, soluble in water, used as a mild antiseptic, bleaching agent (especi...
- VINEGAR: (uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solut...
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