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 3 (game #937).
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 #938) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- GRUMP
- COPY
- BLOCK
- ISSUE
- SCAN
- CRANK
- SACK
- REEL
- ETAIL
- TACKLE
- WIND
- DREAR
- BLITZ
- COIL
- EDITION
NYT Connections today (game #938) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Publishing
- GREEN: Coil
- BLUE: Defense
- PURPLE: Extra bum words
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 #938) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PAPER PUBLICATION
- GREEN: SPOOL
- BLUE: THINGS A DEFENSIVE FOOTBALL PLAYER DOES
- PURPLE: SYNONYMS FOR BUTT PLUS STARTING LETTER
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #938) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #938, are…
- 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
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
I missed out on today’s cheeky purple category as I was looking in the wrong places for added letters.
My mistake came when I connected GRUMP, DREAR, WIND and CRANK, thinking they’d all work with an added Y as perhaps “personality traits of miserable men” or something. That said, I managed to resist a second mistake by collecting the multi-printer functions – PRINT, COPY and SCAN. The lack of a fourth held me back.
As someone who doesn’t follow the NFL, I was pleased to get THINGS A DEFENSIVE FOOTBALL PLAYER DOES, although I was tempted to put SCAN in here too. In soccer the ability to scan the pitch and know everyone’s positions is a highly regarded ability.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, January 3, game #937)
- YELLOW: ARMY RANKS CAPTAIN, GENERAL, MAJOR, PRIVATE
- GREEN: LEGWEAR IN THE SINGULAR JEAN, JOGGER, OVERALL, SLACK
- BLUE: RIHANNA #1 HITS DIAMONDS, SOS, UMBRELLA, WORK
- PURPLE: WET_____ BAR, BLANKET, NURSE, WILLY
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.
