Today’s Connections is a sweet little roller coaster: one set leans romantic, another is all geometry, a third plays with wordplay about “being out of” something, and the purple group takes a detour through Willy Wonka–style candy brand endings. If you’re stuck, you’re not alone—this one likes to toy with definitions.
Hints
Yellow (easiest): It’s all about affection—think about classic “make out” phrases that sound like they belong in a teen movie.
Green: These are things associated with having five—not just “five of something,” but specifically “five-sided.”
Blue: The clue isn’t about being “out,” it’s about the phrase before “out.” If you’re mentally building phrases like “X out of Y,” you’re on the right track.
Purple (toughest): Follow the candy breadcrumb trail. The answers all end with candy brands with the final “S” removed, leaving a shared ending sound/bit.
Tip for solving: when you feel two groups are competing for the same words, focus on the “mechanic” of each category—romantic phrasing for yellow, precise “five-sided” imagery for green, the “out of” construction for blue, and a consistent suffix for purple. That’ll keep you from forcing an overlap.
Answers
Yellow — Canoodling: first base; making out; necking; tonsil hockey.
Green — Five-sided things: home plate; jeans back pocket; school crossing sign; the Pentagon.
Blue — Unexpected places to be “out of”: left field; nowhere; the blue; thin air.
Purple — Ending in candy brands minus “S”: Burger King Whopper (Whoppers); film nerd (Nerds); memento (Mentos); pitcher’s mound (Mounds).
With a set like this, the joy is in switching modes: definitions for the romance category, geometry for the five-sided one, idioms for “out of,” and then pure pattern-matching for the candy ending. If you got the purple set, you were basically doing a mini “word chemistry” lab—just with less science and more sweets.
