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A new new Connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone – which means some people always play ‘Today’s Games’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you are looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New -Connections Tip and Response to Sunday 12 October (Games #854).
Good morning! Let’s play connections, News Smart Wordpan that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need connections tips.
What are you going to do when you are done? Why, play some more word games of course. I also got daily strict tips and answers and quordle tips and answer articles if you also need help with them, while Marc’s Wordle Today page covers the original viral Word game.
Spoiler Warning: Information on new connections Today is below, so do not read on if you do not want to know the answers.
New -Connections Today (Play #855) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- Pandora’s box
- Lucky stiff
- Live music
- Golden Fleece
- GOOD
- Riddance
- Happy Hour
- Hornet’s Nest
- Comic Con
- Karaoke
- American tribulation
- Sayonara
- Minefield
- FINALLY
- Can of worms
- Trivia evening
- About time
New -Connections Today (Games #855) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: A warning about disagreement
- GREEN: What happens on the pub
- BLUE: Sarcastic goodbye
- Purple: Share Trickery
Need more clues?
We are fixed on spoiler territory now, but read on whether you want to know what the four theme answers are to today’s new connections puzzle …
New Connections Today (Game #855) – Tip No. 2 – Group Response
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- Yellow: Metaphors to potentially unstable situations
- Green: Bearing events
- Blue: words after a welcome departure
- Purple: Ends with Synonyms for “scams”
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #855) – The answers
The answers to today’s connections, game #855, are …
- Yellow: Metaphors to potentially unstable situations Can of Worms, Hornet’s Nest, Minefield, Pandora’s Box
- Green: Bearing events Happy Hour, Karaoke, Live Music, Trivia Night
- Blue: words after a welcome departure Eventually, finally good riddance, Sayonara
- Purple: Ends with Synonyms for “scams” American Hustle, Comic Con, Golden Fleece, Lucky Stiff
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
To quote one of today’s tiles, this game was a minefield. Two-word tiles make me uneasy, and this board seemed like a complex bunch of words where I could find two things in common for about six of them, but nothing beyond that.
Gradually, the fog began to stand out, and rather than thinking about Japanese links to karaoke, I saw the blackboard sign outside bars, and instead of possible ship names to add to Golden Fleece I saw all the other words that mean to pull a prank on someone.
After getting shaving events and ending with synonyms for “scams”, I stopped and got metaphors for potentially unstable situations through pure luck. I was glad to have this done and out of my head.
Yesterday’s new -connections answer (Sunday 12th October, Games #854)
- Yellow: For all times Eternal, eternal, forever, permanent
- Green: Establishes Beginning, institutes, launches, pioneers
- Blue: Birds Kite, Robin, Swallow, Swift
- Purple: happy ____ Days, ending, returning, trails
What are new connections?
New Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four objects that share something in common, and each group has another level of difficulty: green is light, yellow a little harder, blue often quite hard and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you do not have to technically solve the last one, as you can answer one by an elimination process. In addition, you can make up to four errors, giving you a little bit of breathing room.
However, it is a little more involved than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to get up with tricks. For example, be careful on gay and other word games that can hide the answers.
It can be played free of charge via the new Games website on desktop or mobile.
