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A direction for each group — no names given.
What kind of thinking each group asks for.
Pointed nudges on the words built to fool you.
Every Connections board plants a few decoys. Here are today’s, and why they pull you the wrong way.
Sounds like a verb meaning to share thoughts, but here it's a noun for a small intentional community.
Could be mistaken for a medical term or a business process, but here it is a board game where you remove patient body parts.
Looks like a nautical or voting term, but its sound links to a way of looking.
Words that refer to small, organized human settlements: commune, hamlet, township, and village.
Well-known tabletop games that have been popular for decades: Battleship, Operation, Othello, and Trouble.
Each word sounds like a verb related to sight: AYE (eye), LEAR (leer), PIER (peer), and STAIR (stare).
Every word contains, as consecutive letters, the name of one of the four March sisters from Little Women: BANJO (JO), MACBETH (BETH), MONOGAMY (AMY), and NUTMEG (MEG).
a textbook decoy
requires lateral thinking
Solving the easiest group first reshapes how you read the entire board.
The editors reuse certain misdirection patterns. Learning to spot them saves guesses.
Purple is never what it first appears to be. Six structural patterns explain most of them.
Film titles, band names, and celebrity surnames hide in plain sight.
