Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
SPOILER ALERT: Today’s NYT Connections information is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NEW Connections today (game #868) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- THE STARLING
- BRASS
- BEAUTY
- BEE
- STEERING
- FLOW
- BAPTISM
- WIND
- CORD
- TALENT
- BUTTERFLY
- THE KITCHEN
- STICK
- DOGGY
- PERCUSSION
- POPULARITY
NEW Connections today (game #868) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Making music
- GREEN: As said by The Greatest
- BLUE: Types of competition
- PURPLE: Minor versions (grammatical)
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…
NEW Connections today (game #868) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SHAPE OF INSTRUMENTS
- GREEN: WORDS OF A FAMOUS MUHAMMAD ALI QUOTE
- BLUE: FORM OF COMPETITIONS
- PURPLE: WORDS WITH DIMINUTIVE SUFFIXES
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #868) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #868, are…
- YELLOW: SHAPE OF INSTRUMENTS BRASS, PERCUSSION, STRING, WIND
- GREEN: WORDS OF A FAMOUS MUHAMMAD ALI QUOTE BEE, SUMMERFUL, FLOAT, STICK
- BLUE: FORM OF COMPETITIONS BEAUTY, POPULARITY, STARING, TALENT
- PURPLE: WORDS WITH DIMINUTIVE SUFFIXES DOGGY, DROPLET, KITCHEN, STARLING
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
NYT is constantly finding new ways to confuse and confuse with Connections.
Today I found the column containing STARS, STEERING, STRING, STITCH both distracting and impossible to resist putting together as a group – not that I could see the link beyond the recurring five letters.
After I was wrong, I took another gamble with BEE, BUTTERFLY, FLOAT, STING and remembered a singer called Johnny Wakelin and his 1970s hit Black Superman with its chorus of “Muhammad, Muhammad Ali, soar like a butterfly, sting like a bee”.
After this triumph, I got SHAPE OF INSTRUMENTS easily enough, but fumbled with the last eight tiles and found SHAPE OF COMPETITIONS after a few attempts at shuffling. Not exactly the biggest, but I wasn’t knocked out either.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Saturday, October 25, Game #867)
- YELLOW: FRAUD FLEECE, SNAKE, HUSTLE, SHACKLE
- GREEN: DIGITAL CLOCK FUNCTIONS ALARM, DATE, LIGHT, STOPWATCH
- BLUE: CONFER COMPLIANCE, PRICE, GRANT, VEST
- PURPLE: BEST ACTRESS WINNING BIOPIC CAPOTE, LINCOLN, MILK, RAY
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different degree of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough, and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the last one, as you’ll be able to answer it by a process of elimination. Also, 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, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you play tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that can hide the answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
