A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, December 21 (game #924).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #925) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- RUSH
- PIN
- PLAYING
- LATER
- GREETING
- CYA
- RASH
- COMING
- WAVE
- BUSINESS
- FUTURE
- BROW
- WHIT
- FOLLOWING
- MEMBERSHIP
- SURGE
NYT Connections today (game #925) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Incoming
- GREEN: Expected soon
- BLUE: Made of stiff paper
- PURPLE: Missing a colorful letter
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #925) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: INFLUX
- GREEN: SUBSEQUENT
- BLUE: KINDS OF CARDS
- PURPLE: COLORS MINUS LAST LETTER
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #925) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #925, are…
- YELLOW: INFLUX RASH, RUSH, SURGE, WAVE
- GREEN: SUBSEQUENT COMING, FOLLOWING, FUTURE, LATER
- BLUE: KINDS OF CARDS BUSINESS, GREETING, MEMBERSHIP, PLAYING
- PURPLE: COLORS MINUS LAST LETTER BROW, CYA, PIN, WHIT
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
My mistake was in putting COMING in place of RASH in what became a collection of words meaning INFLUX.
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to mix up words from the yellow and green groups, as they seem very similar.
But let’s not concentrate on that; before my yellow-green confusion came a color triumph. I saw CYA first and initially thought that we might be looking for printer ink colors, but the reality was a little more straightforward. Congrats if you joined the purple-first club too. Let’s all tell random strangers how clever we are.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, December 21, game #924)
- YELLOW: FEATURES OF A TEAPOT HANDLE, LID, SPOUT, STRAINER
- BLUE: ARISE EMERGE, FLOW, ISSUE, RESULT
- GREEN: LIBRARY SECTIONS CIRCULATION, PERIODICALS, REFERENCE, STACKS
- PURPLE: ____DROP AIR, EAVES, GUM, RAIN
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
