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 Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, December 13 (game #916).
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 #917) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- DUCKLING
- COLONEL
- NAPOLEON
- PRINCESS
- CALF
- PIGLET
- EMPEROR
- FAWN
- GUSH
- MERMAID
- CHALK
- PORKY
- PRAISE
- WOULD
- BABE
- FLATTER
NYT Connections today (game #917) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Wax lyrical about someone
- GREEN: Fairytale characters
- BLUE: A missing sound
- PURPLE: Animal characters
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 #917) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: LAY IT ON THICK
- GREEN: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON FIGURES
- BLUE: SILENT “L”
- PURPLE: FICTIONAL PIGS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #917) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #917, are…
- YELLOW: LAY IT ON THICK FAWN, FLATTER, GUSH, PRAISE
- GREEN: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON FIGURES DUCKLING, EMPEROR, MERMAID, PRINCESS
- BLUE: SILENT “L” CALF, CHALK, COLONEL, WOULD
- PURPLE: FICTIONAL PIGS BABE, NAPOLEON, PIGLET, PORKY
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
Purple groups about Greek mythology, grammar or New York sports go completely over my head, but if the topic is FICTIONAL PIGS I will see it straight away.
BABE and PIGLET were the obvious duo and PORKY is from Looney Tunes but NAPOLEON was a guess. Initially I thought it was one of the pigs in Angry Birds but Google has informed me he features in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Getting the hardest group first helped me avoid the baby animals trap and bring the game to a quick ending with another silent letter group and LAY IT ON THICK.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, December 13, game #916)
- YELLOW: WIDE-LEGGED PANT STYLES CULOTTE, GAUCHO, HAREM, PALAZZO
- GREEN: SILENT “T” APOSTLE, DEPOT, MORTGAGE, POIROT
- BLUE: NEW YORK METS LEGENDS GOODEN, PIAZZA, SEAVER, STRAWBERRY
- PURPLE: GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES MINUS A LETTER AJA, ARE, HER, HERCULE
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.
