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Need a hint for today’s Connections on Tuesday, 28th October? Play Connections puzzles, they said… Granted, it is fun, but also very hard at times. If today’s Connections puzzle is proving a bit too challenging, let’s get you some help.
Click a few small spoilers, scroll down to theme reveals, or glance at our hints; this Connections guide will secure your victory.
In this guide:
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
Pelvis
Chestnut
Home
Hip
Select
Gusher
Trope
Back
Kenya
Wise
Menu
Cliché
Aware
Ocher
Platitude
Savvy
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”.
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).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Tuesday, 28th October
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: “I’ve seen this one too many times.”
- Green: If you know what’s going on, you’re […].
- Blue: Use them to watch TV.
- Purple: See any singers?
- Extra hint 1: Only two groups contain four-letter words.
- Extra hint 2: “Ocher” and “chestnut” 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: Chestnut
- Green: Savvy
- Blue: Home
- Purple: Pelvis
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are 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: Banality
- Green: In the Know
- Blue: Remote Control Buttons
- Purple: One-Named Singer Plus Starting Letter
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!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday, 28th October:
- Yellow: Banality (Chestnut, Cliché, Platitude, Trope)
- Green: In the Know (Aware, Hip, Savvy, Wise)
- Blue: Remote Control Buttons (Back, Home, Menu, Select)
- Purple: One-Named Singer Plus Starting Letter (Gusher, Kenya, Ocher, Pelvis)
Here are the Connections answers for Tuesday, 28th October. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT
Hopefully, difficult yellow themes won’t turn into a recurring Connections trope… I was well on my way with “cliché, trope, and platitude”, but I didn’t understand “chestnut”. Apparently, you can use this word to describe an old joke or a story that has been told over and over again.
Matching the savvy words wasn’t too hard, but I did have my doubts about “hip” initially, as it seemed more fashion-related than generally knowledgeable… But then I realised being knowledgeable about fashion, being “fashion-savvy”, is indeed being hip, so it all worked out.
By the time I subtracted the P from pelvis, I’d already solved green and blue, so it wasn’t hard to find the remaining singers with just a few words left. Finally, I was able to match “chestnut” with the other yellow words.
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!
