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): BAMBOO
- Green: HORSERADISH
- Blue: CHALLENGER
- Purple (hardest): ARKANSANS
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Things With Stalks.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Oyster Condiments.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Dodge Models.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Three Letters Plus Repeated Trigrams.
Show all four answers
Things With Stalks
BAMBOO, CELERY, CORN, WHEAT
Oyster Condiments
HORSERADISH, LEMON, MIGNONETTE, TABASCO
Dodge Models
CHALLENGER, CHARGER, DURANGO, VIPER
Three Letters Plus Repeated Trigrams
ARKANSANS, CHIHUAHUA, POSSESSES, SPRINGING
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): Things With Stalks
- BAMBOO: A fast-growing grass of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem.
- CELERY: (uncountable, vegetable) The stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable.
- CORN: (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop o...
- WHEAT: (countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
Green: Oyster Condiments
- HORSERADISH: (uncountable) A pungent condiment made from the root of the plant.
- LEMON: A yellowish citrus fruit.
- MIGNONETTE: A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragranc...
- TABASCO: A tabasco pepper.
Blue: Dodge Models
- CHALLENGER: One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning a...
- CHARGER: A device that charges or recharges.
- DURANGO: A state of Mexico.
- VIPER: A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
Purple (hardest): Three Letters Plus Repeated Trigrams
- ARKANSANS: A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.
- CHIHUAHUA: The smallest breed of dog in the world, originating in Mexico and having large erect ears.
- POSSESSES: (transitive) To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
- SPRINGING: (uncountable) The action of the verb to spring.
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