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 Wednesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, December 10 (game #913).
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 #914) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- QUE
- SERA
- BUNNY
- EARS
- QUEUE
- DEVIL
- GNOME
- GRILL
- SEAR
- BOWL
- ELLE
- JACKET
- SHED
- ARE
- ARES
- SPRINKLER
NYT Connections today (game #914) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Outside the home
- GREEN: Similar letters
- BLUE: Alphabetical soundalikes
- PURPLE: Star with a word describing sandy dirt
Need more clues?
NYT Connections today (game #914) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS SEEN IN A YARD
- GREEN: ANAGRAMS
- BLUE: LETTER HOMOPHONES
- PURPLE: DUST
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #914) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #914, are…
- YELLOW: THINGS SEEN IN A YARD GNOME, GRILL, SHED, SPRINKLER
- GREEN: ANAGRAMS ARES, EARS, SEAR, SERA
- BLUE: LETTER HOMOPHONES ARE, ELLE, QUE, QUEUE
- PURPLE: DUST BOWL, BUNNY, DEVIL, JACKET
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
Connections can play tricks on the brain and the one thing I always have to be wary of is not to fall for obvious quartets – because they are often traps. However, the thing is sometimes those obvious quartets that you think are traps? Well, today they are actual groups.
This mind game appeared twice today – once with the blue group of LETTER HOMOPHONES and also with the LETTER ANAGRAMS, which seemed so obvious I left it alone.
Meanwhile THINGS SEEN IN A YARD is a recurring category and well, the purple group I got because they made more sense together rather than me guessing that DUST was the connection.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, December 10, game #913)
- YELLOW: “MY GOODNESS!” DEAR, GRACIOUS, HEAVENS, MERCY
- GREEN: IMITATION COPY, DUMMY, DUPE, FAKE
- BLUE: CONFECTION CANDY, LOLLY, SUCKER, SWEET
- PURPLE: WHAT “Y” MIGHT MEAN WHY, YEAR, YELLOW, YES
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.
