Hints Matter for Today's Purple and Blue Connections Categories for July 9, #394

Today, both of those categories stumped me.

I did poorly on both, but you might do better with our answers.

Scroll down for hints so you won’t break your streak.

Here’stoday’s Wordle answer, and here’s the one forStrands.

Yellow group hint:Write down.

Green group hint:Tresses.

Blue group hint:Singular shows.

Purple group hint:Phrase beginning with a word for a boundary made of bushes.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group:Chronicle.

Green group:Mess of hair.

Blue group:TV shows minus “S.”

Purple group:Words after “hedge.”

The theme is chronicle.

The four answers are journal, log, record and register.

The theme is mess of hair.

The four answers are mane, mop, shock and tangle.

The theme is words after “hedge.”

The four answers are fund, hog, maze and trimmer.

Playing is easy.Winning is hard.

Look at the 16 words and mentally assign them to related groups of four.

press the four words you think go together.

The yellow group is the easiest, then green, then blue, and purple is the toughest.

Look at the words carefully, and think about related terms.

Sometimes the connection has to do with just a part of the word.