Today’s Connections puzzle leans into wordplay that feels “close but not quite,” especially once you start hunting inside other words. Expect a little stealth, a little detective flavor, and a purple category that’s basically anatomy—if you know where to look.
Hints
Yellow (easiest): Think of moving quietly, with a small “in” tucked into the idea.
Green: These are varieties of schemes—names you’ve probably heard in true-crime and finance threads.
Blue: Four classic detective-movie titles, each recognizable if you let the film genre guide you.
Purple (tough): Body parts hidden inside words, specifically ones surrounded by two letters—like the anatomy is wearing a disguise.
If you’re stuck, a useful strategy is to solve the easier categories first, then use the remaining words to “cross-check” what the outlier category must be doing (especially for purple).
Answers
Yellow group (move stealthily, with “in”): creep, slip, sneak, steal
Green group (kinds of schemes): color, Ponzi, pyramid, rhyme
Blue group (detective movies): Chinatown, Knives Out, Seven, Vertigo
Purple group (body parts surrounded by two letters): elegy (leg), karma (arm), keyed (eye), shandy (hand)
Purple is the one to revisit if you want the “aha.” Once you spot that each answer contains a body part hidden between two letters, the category stops feeling random and starts feeling engineered.