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Hints for Connections #1022
- Art you might see while walking.
- Moves you might have seen on Soul Train.
- Like “pneumonia” or “pterodactyl.”
- A typically permanent identifier.
Answers for Sunday, March 29
Spoilers below: The four groups and their words are:
- Images Seen on the Street: GRAFFITI, MURAL, POSTER, STENCIL
- Retro Dance Crazes: HUSTLE, MASHED POTATO, ROBOT, TWIST
- Silent “P”: CORPS, COUP, PSYCHO, RECEIPT
- ___ Mark: BEAUTY, CHECK, QUESTION, STRETCH
Why the words fit
Images Seen on the Street
GRAFFITI, MURAL, POSTER and STENCIL are forms of visual material encountered on streets or public surfaces.
Retro Dance Crazes
HUSTLE, MASHED POTATO, ROBOT and TWIST are dance styles associated with earlier popular culture.
#1 Best Overall
Silent “P”
The P is not pronounced in CORPS, COUP, PSYCHO or RECEIPT. CORPS is pronounced “core,” not “corpse.”
___ Mark
BEAUTY, CHECK, QUESTION and STRETCH each complete a familiar phrase: beauty mark, check mark, question mark and stretch mark.
Rank #2
A note on the final group
Parade lists CHEEK in the last group, but TechRadar and Forbes give CHECK, which completes “check mark.” The answer here is CHECK.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.How Connections works
Connections asks players to sort 16 words into four groups of four based on shared links. Forbes contributor Erik Kain describes the goal as finding “links between four pairs of four” within the 16 words. The game format is also discussed in the 2024 paper “NYT-Connections: A Deceptively Simple Text Classification Task that Stumps System-1 Thinkers.”
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