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 27 (game #930).
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 #931) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- DUSKY
- SPRING
- STILL
- PERRIER
- BOX
- STATIONARY
- GEAR
- ENVELOPE
- NOODLE
- RATCHET
- TUBE
- STATIC
- PAWL
- CONSTANT
- SOXER
- MAILER
NYT Connections today (game #931) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: In the post
- GREEN: Hold it
- BLUE: Analog engineering
- PURPLE: Altered canines
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 #931) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CONTAINERS FOR SHIPPING
- GREEN: UNMOVING
- BLUE: MECHANICAL WATCH PARTS
- PURPLE: DOGS WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #931) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #931, are…
- YELLOW: CONTAINERS FOR SHIPPING BOX, ENVELOPE, MAILER, TUBE
- GREEN: UNMOVING CONSTANT, STATIC, STATIONARY, STILL
- BLUE: MECHANICAL WATCH PARTS GEAR, PAWL, RATCHET, SPRING
- PURPLE: DOGS WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED DUSKY, NOODLE, PERRIER, SOXER
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
The first task today was ignoring the very obvious collection of water types – SPRING, STILL, and PERRIER – positioned temptingly along the first row of tiles.
Fortunately I managed to resist and saw instead that STILL had some partners in STATIC, STATIONARY and CONSTANT.
After getting the green group and with PERRIER still in play, I deduced that it must be something to do with the word rather than what it represented – but it was sounding out NOODLE and DUSKY that helped me find all of the DOGS WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED; Terrier was the breed hiding in the guise of the gassy French water.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, December 27, game #930)
- YELLOW: AIRLINE CLASSES BUSINESS, ECONOMY, FIRST, PREMIUM
- BLUE: VOCATION CALLING, CRAFT, LINE, TRADE
- GREEN: ATTRIBUTE CITE, CREDIT, NAME, REFERENCE
- PURPLE: ENDING WITH ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DECIDER, NAMESAKE, REPORT, VILLAGER
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.
