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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is a real challenge. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time

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: Supportive emotions.

Green group hint: Totally tubular would be another one.

Blue group hint: Gifts no one wants.

Purple group hint: Earl Grey, hot.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Positive feelings.

Green group: Retro expressions of approval.

Blue group: Bad things to give someone.

Purple group: What things pronounced “T” might refer to.

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is positive feelings. The four answers are bliss, felicity, happiness and warm fuzzies.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is retro expressions of approval. The four answers are cool beans, far out, groovy and right on.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is bad things to give someone. The four answers are cold shoulder, dirty look, hard time and runaround.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is what things pronounced “T” might refer to. The four answers are golf accessory, gossip, hot drink and shirt.

Toughest Connections puzzles

We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.

#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.

#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.

#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.

#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.

#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.