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): BACKPACK
- Green: INCENSE
- Blue: DRY ICE
- Purple (hardest): DISCO BALL
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Things To Bring On A Trek.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Anger.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Mist Makers.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Things With Mirrors.
Show all four answers
Things To Bring On A Trek
BACKPACK, COMPASS, HIKING BOOTS, WATER BOTTLE
Anger
INCENSE, NETTLE, PIQUE, WIND UP
Mist Makers
DRY ICE, FOG MACHINE, HUMIDIFIER, WATERFALL
Things With Mirrors
DISCO BALL, DRESSING ROOM, KALEIDOSCOPE, MEDICINE CABINET
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 To Bring On A Trek
- BACKPACK: A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpo...
- COMPASS: A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
- HIKING BOOTS
- WATER BOTTLE: A bottle used for carrying water or other drinks.
Green: Anger
- INCENSE: Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
- NETTLE: Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
- PIQUE: (transitive) To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an ...
- WIND UP: (intransitive, copulative) To end up; to arrive or result.
Blue: Mist Makers
- DRY ICE: Carbon dioxide frozen in the solid state, used especially as a cooling agent and for the production of fog-like speci...
- FOG MACHINE: Synonym of fogger (device that generates artificial fog)
- HUMIDIFIER: A device that is used to increase the humidity of the air.
- WATERFALL: A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
Purple (hardest): Things With Mirrors
- DISCO BALL: A suspended rotating mirrored sphere which casts moving spots of light across a room when light is projected on it.
- DRESSING ROOM: A room used for dressing or changing clothes.
- KALEIDOSCOPE: An instrument consisting of a tube containing mirrors and loose, colourful beads or other objects; when the tube is l...
- MEDICINE CABINET: A cupboard where drugs and medical paraphernalia are stored.
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