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 #924) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- RAIN
- LID
- AIR
- FLOW
- WITHDRAWAL
- CIRCULATION
- QUESTION
- POOR
- THUD
- GUM
- REFERENCE
- HANDLE
- PERIODICALS
- RESULT
- SI
- ARISE
NEW Connections today (game #924) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Components of a tea maker
- BLUE: Coming out
- GREEN: Reading matter
- PURPLE: Add a dropped word
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 #924) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FUNCTIONS OF A TEAPOT
- BLUE: STAND UP
- GREEN: LIBRARY DEPARTMENTS
- PURPLE: ____DROP
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #924) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #924, are…
- YELLOW: FUNCTIONS OF A TEAPOT HANDLE, LID, SPOUT, SIEVE
- BLUE: STAND UP EMERGE, FLOW, ISSUE, RESULT
- GREEN: LIBRARY DEPARTMENTS CIRCULATION, PERIODICALS, REFERENCE, STACKERS
- PURPLE: ____DROP AIR, OUTLET, RUBBER, RAIN
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
Nursery rhymes by I’m a little teapot helped me get two from today’s yellow group and that was enough to seal the deal.
My matches came in the group that became ARISE as I scrambled to get all four including AIR and RAIN in the mix – before finally narrowing it down.
STACKS was the confusing element in LIBRARY SECTIONS, a term I hadn’t heard before – but then I last visited a library in the 2010s, so that’s my ignorance rather than it being an obscure phrase.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Saturday, December 20, Game #923)
- YELLOW: CONTAINERS BUCKET, CAN, DRUM, TIN
- GREEN: LAUNDRY SERVICES DRY, fold, PRESS, WASH
- BLUE: BRITISH BANDS FORMED IN THE 1970s WITH “THE” KLASH, COLD, DECAY, FALL
- PURPLE: ROCK ___ BOTTOM, LOBSTER, MUSIC, SALT
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 bit more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you beat yourself up with 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.
