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, January 4 (game #938).
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 #939) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- BRUTAL
- IMPRESSION
- VERY
- REAL
- LIKE
- MANNER
- POLE
- POST
- FIVE
- VERSUS
- EXTREME
- END
- OPPOSITE
- COMMENT
- LURK
- VOLT
NYT Connections today (game #939) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Facebook behavior
- GREEN: Very far away
- BLUE: A brush with history
- PURPLE: After U
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 #939) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS YOU CAN DO ON SOCIAL MEDIA
- GREEN: FURTHEST POINT
- BLUE: ART MOVEMENTS, WITH “-ISM”
- PURPLE: WHAT “V” MIGHT MEAN
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #939) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #939, are…
- YELLOW: THINGS YOU CAN DO ON SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENT, LIKE, LURK, POST
- GREEN: FURTHEST POINT END, EXTREME, OPPOSITE, POLE
- BLUE: ART MOVEMENTS, WITH “-ISM” BRUTAL, IMPRESSION, MANNER, REAL
- PURPLE: WHAT “V” MIGHT MEAN FIVE, VERSUS, VERY, VOLT
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
In the early days of social media I would POST, LIKE and COMMENT for hours, before gradually fading into my 10-minute a day LURK period. Now, I tend to avoid it altogether and the main reason is the advertising – it’s not that it’s bad, it’s that it’s too good. Seriously, every time I fire up Facebook, TikTok or Instagram the ads are so well-targeted I find myself going on unnecessary spending sprees for cleaning products I never knew I desperately needed.
Anyway, I digress. This was a good day for me as I managed to get the purple group a little bit early.
That said, I didn’t get it because I saw they were all ART MOVEMENTS, WITH ISM. I just saw the “ism” part – if there had been a tile for ‘surreal’ or ‘cub’ maybe I would have seen that too, but MANNER is not a movement I’m familiar with.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, January 4, game #938)
- YELLOW: PAPER PUBLICATION COPY, EDITION, ISSUE, PRINT
- GREEN: SPOOL COIL, CRANK, REEL, WIND
- BLUE: THINGS A DEFENSIVE FOOTBALL PLAYER DOES BLITZ, BLOCK, SACK, TACKLE
- PURPLE: SYNONYMS FOR BUTT PLUS STARTING LETTER DREAR, ETAIL, GRUMP, SCAN
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.
