Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has another of those memorable purple categories that make players tear their hair out. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers.

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Don’t get a shock!

Green group hint: Waaaaah!

Blue group hint: Different versions of one color.

Purple group hint: Four similar words, each with one letter added.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Electric things.

Green group: Moved to tears.

Blue group: Shades of gray.

Purple group: Music genre plus starting letter.

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is electric things.

The four answers are electric eel, lightning, live wire and Pikachu.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is moved to tears.

The four answers are choked up, emotional, misty and overcome.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is shades of gray.

The four answers are ash, dove, pewter and slate.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is music genre plus starting letter.

The four answers are Brock, Nemo, spunk and wrap.

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of “Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the ’70s and ’80s,” as well as “The Totally Sweet ’90s.” She’s been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She’s Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she’ll be first in line.

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