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 20 (game #923).
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 #924) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- RAIN
- LID
- AIR
- FLOW
- EAVES
- CIRCULATION
- ISSUE
- STACKS
- SPOUT
- GUM
- REFERENCE
- HANDLE
- PERIODICALS
- RESULT
- STRAINER
- EMERGE
NYT Connections today (game #924) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Components of a tea maker
- BLUE: Coming out
- GREEN: Reading matter
- PURPLE: Add a fallen word
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 #924) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FEATURES OF A TEAPOT
- BLUE: ARISE
- GREEN: LIBRARY SECTIONS
- PURPLE: ____DROP
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #924) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #924, are…
- 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
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 mistakes
The nursery rhyme of I’m a Little Teapot helped me get two of today’s yellow group, and that was enough to seal the deal.
My struggles came in the group that became ARISE, as I grasped at getting all four including AIR and RAIN in the mix – before I finally narrowed it down.
STACKS was the confusing element of LIBRARY SECTIONS, a term that I’d not heard before – but then I did last visit a library in the 2010s, so that’s my ignorance rather than it being some obscure phrase.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, December 20, game #923)
- YELLOW: CONTAINERS BUCKET, CAN, DRUM, TIN
- GREEN: LAUNDRY SERVICES DRY, FOLD, PRESS, WASH
- BLUE: BRITISH BANDS FORMED IN THE 1970S, WITH “THE” CLASH, CURE, DAMNED, FALL
- PURPLE: ROCK ___ BOTTOM, LOBSTER, MUSIC, SALT
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.
