The latest edition of ECNETNews Connections for January 15, 2023, is now live for word game enthusiasts. Since launching in June 2023, this innovative word puzzle has quickly gained popularity among players. The game presents a grid of 16 words that players must categorize into four distinct themes of four words each. Themes may vary widely—from homonyms and palindromes to words ending in ‘-ing.’ Each theme is color-coded to indicate its difficulty, with Yellow being the easiest and Purple the most challenging, alongside other categories represented by Green and Blue.
The words featured in today’s game are PEANUT, VEHICLE, DIRTY, ROBOT, SHY, BIG, WET, TOAD, MEDIUM, LOW, PERFECT, TOOL, LIGHT, MECHANISM, DRY, and SHORT.
Here are the hints for the January 15 Connections:
Yellow Category
Items used to achieve a desired outcome.
Green Category
Absence of something.
Blue Category
Ingredients for making a specific cocktail.
Purple Category
Commonly follows “Mr.”
Today’s Connections Answers for January 15
The answers for today’s Connections are as follows:
Yellow Category: Methods
MECHANISM, MEDIUM, TOOL, and VEHICLE.
Green Category: Deficient
LIGHT, LOW, SHORT, and SHY.
Blue Category: Cocktail Types
DIRTY, DRY, PERFECT, and WET.
Purple Category: Fictional Characters
BIG, PEANUT, ROBOT, and TOAD.
Today’s game posed unique challenges, with many words sharing similarities that complicated categorization. Initially, we attempted to associate MECHANISM, TOOL, and VEHICLE with ROBOT under a theme of artificial objects, but that was a miscalculation. We also mistakenly grouped LIGHT, LOW, SHORT with PEANUT. However, identifying the words in the Green category helped us unlock the rest of the puzzle.
