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): DIRECT
- Green: DRIVER
- Blue: DISTANCE
- Purple (hardest): DOUBLE
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Forthright.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Things You Install On A Computer.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Quantities In A Formula For Power.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is ___ Tap.
Show all four answers
Forthright
DIRECT, FRANK, OPEN, VOCAL
Things You Install On A Computer
DRIVER, EXTENSION, PLUGIN, UPDATE
Quantities In A Formula For Power
DISTANCE, FORCE, POWER, TIME
___ Tap
DOUBLE, LOVE, PHONE, SPINAL
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): Forthright
- DIRECT: Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
- FRANK: Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
- OPEN: (usually not comparable) Physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc.
- VOCAL: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
Green: Things You Install On A Computer
- DRIVER: A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
- EXTENSION: The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- PLUGIN: Alternative spelling of plug-in. [Anything that plugs into something.]
- UPDATE: A change in information, a modification of existing or known data.
Blue: Quantities In A Formula For Power
- DISTANCE: (countable) An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured alo...
- FORCE: Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an infl...
- POWER: The ability to do or undergo something.
- TIME: (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
Purple (hardest): ___ Tap
- DOUBLE: Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- LOVE: (uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
- PHONE: A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable un...
- SPINAL: (anatomy, zootomy) Of or relating to the spine.
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