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, January 17 (game #951).
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 #952) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- QUOTE
- PECK
- PRICE
- TOTAL
- DAMAGE
- TITLE
- BILL
- GRANT
- AUTHOR
- WINGS
- COOPER
- BREAK
- WEBBING
- WRECK
- SYNOPSIS
- FEATHERS
NYT Connections today (game #952) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Bird characteristics
- GREEN: Ruin something
- BLUE: Seen on a paperback
- PURPLE: Stars of the silver screen
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 #952) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FEATURES OF A DUCK
- GREEN: DESTROY
- BLUE: FOUND ON A BOOK JACKET
- PURPLE: CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD ACTORS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #952) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #952, are…
- YELLOW: FEATURES OF A DUCK BILL, FEATHERS, WEBBING, WINGS
- GREEN: DESTROY BREAK, DAMAGE, TOTAL, WRECK
- BLUE: FOUND ON A BOOK JACKET AUTHOR, QUOTE, SYNOPSIS, TITLE
- PURPLE: CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD ACTORS COOPER, GRANT, PECK, PRICE
- My rating: Easy
- My score: 1 mistake
I guessed correctly that we were trying to link four tiles connected to things FOUND ON A BOOK JACKET today, but I included PRICE instead of SYNOPSIS in the quartet.
I can’t help but think that I was supposed to fall into this trap.
Fortunately, beyond this crossover between the two hardest groups, the rest of the game was fairly straightforward – although I did spend possibly too long pondering why BILL, FEATHERS, WEBBING and WINGS are FEATURES OF A DUCK and not any other bird they could also apply to.
Disappearing down a duck-shaped Google hole today I learned that ducks have different accents depending on where they call home – city ducks are louder – and that they have filtering teeth inside their bills. Fascinating.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, January 17, game #951)
- YELLOW: SPREAD OVER BLANKET, COAT, COVER, PLASTER
- GREEN: THROW CAST, HURL, PELT, SLING
- BLUE: ANAGRAMS INKS, KINS, SINK, SKIN
- PURPLE: FIRST WORDS OF KIDS’ GAMES CAPTURE, HIDE, RED, SIMON
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.
