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NYT Connections game 1196: Saturday's puzzle
Today's word game challenges players to spot four groups of four words, from math functions to swinging London.
In brief
Today's word game challenges players to spot four groups of four words, from math functions to swinging London. NYT Connections game 1196 features four groups: words meaning to widen scope, features of children's drawings, references to nineteen sixties London, and phrases starting with math abbreviations. Originally…
Today's sixteen words
NYT Connections game 1196 presents sixteen words to sort into four groups of four. The words are: stick figure, miniskirt, log cabin, sun, tan line, branch out, house, twiggy, tree, mod, sin city, grow, cos lettuce, expand, carnaby street, diversify.
Yellow group: widen scope
The yellow group, rated easiest, groups words meaning to broaden one's horizons. The four answers are: branch out, diversify, expand, grow.
Green group: kid's drawing
The green group features classic elements of a child's simple drawing. The four answers are: house, stick figure, sun, tree.
Blue group: swinging London
The blue group connects to Cool Britannia and the nineteen sixties. The four answers are: carnaby street, miniskirt, mod, twiggy.
Purple group: math functions
The purple group, rated hardest, features phrases starting with abbreviated math functions. The four answers are: cos lettuce, log cabin, sin city, tan line.
Puzzle difficulty: hard
The puzzle is rated hard. The solver made one mistake by initially grouping stick figure, branch out, log cabin and twiggy together before spotting twiggy's connection to swinging London.
“I fell straight down today's trapdoor linking STICK FIGURE, BRANCH OUT, LOG CABIN and TWIGGY.”
The math group proved toughest
The purple group starting with abbreviated math functions went above the solver's head. The group uses cos, log, sin and tan as the hidden starting letters of lettuce, cabin, city and line.
“STARTING WITH ABBREVIATED MATH FUNCTIONS went way above my head.”
At a glance
NYT Connections game 1196 features four groups: words meaning to widen scope, features of children's drawings, references to nineteen sixties London, and phrases starting with math abbreviations.
