Hints
Today’s Connections leans into an oddly satisfying theme: controls, musical organization, and some very specific movie titles. If you’re feeling stalled, start with the easiest category, then use what you learn to narrow down the rest.
If you want puzzle solving help without jumping straight to every answer, here are spoiler-friendly nudges in ascending difficulty.
Yellow group (easiest): Let’s cook. Think about the kinds of settings you’d find on a stove dial—words that describe how hot (or not) a burner is running.
Green group: Level of power. This is about measuring or describing how strong something is—words that can describe force, strength, or intensity.
Blue group: Time to sing or play. These terms are the building blocks of how music is structured: ideas you’d encounter when learning about scales, keys, and the distances between notes. (If you get one word right, the rest usually click quickly.)
Purple group (toughest): Cinema titles. Look for the pattern “____ Day”—and then match the missing word to the well-known movie titles that fit.
If you’re working through today’s puzzle and want a clean way to reflect on your progress, the official Connections experience is designed to let you adjust, retry, and learn as you go.
Answers
Here are the full Connections solutions for today.
Yellow category: Stove knob settings
high, medium, off, simmer
Green category: Potency
concentration, force, intensity, might
Blue category: Music theory concepts
interval, key, mode, scale
Purple category: “____ Day” movies
Groundhog, Independence, The Longest, Training
One satisfying aspect of today’s puzzle is how the “music theory” group rewards familiarity: once you recognize the relationship between scale, key, and mode, the remaining word (interval) falls into place. For the purple category, scanning for the recognizable “____ Day” film pattern is the fastest path—cinema fans tend to get that last group to pop with surprisingly little effort.
After you’ve played, you might also enjoy pairing today’s solve with other NYT word puzzles—especially if you like the logic of grouping rather than just definitions—like Crossword challenges or general Today’s NYT puzzle solving help.
