I figured out early on that there would be a group of TV shows, but with five possibilities in the mix (and me not clocking the purple connection), I had to try to brute force my way through it.

This is your final warning! Today’s connections are... Yellow group — Halloween decorations (BAT, COBWEB, PUMPKIN, TOMBSTONE) Green group — TV shows (24, BONES, FIREFLY, WEEDS) Blue group ...

He has covered film, TV, music, and Hollywood celebrity news ... Connections challenges players to uncover threads connecting a series of words. Instructions on how to play the game are below.

And the armed switch for firing a missile is also called a "hot pickle". The Big Spin is what California's lottery TV show is called. And lottery being a game of chance, from here Burke takes us ...