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A new NEW Connections puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people are always playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s”. If you’re looking for the Sunday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Sunday, January 4th (Game #938).
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 #939) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- BRUTAL
- IMPRESSION
- VERY
- GENUINE
- LIKE
- MANNER
- POLE
- POST
- FIVE
- AGAINST
- EXTREME
- END
- OPPOSITE
- COMMENT
- LURK
- VOLT
NEW Connections today (game #939) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Facebook behavior
- GREEN: Very far away
- BLUE: A brush with history
- PURPLE: After U
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 #939) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS YOU CAN DO ON SOCIAL MEDIA
- GREEN: LAST POINT
- BLUE: ART MOVEMENTS, WITH “-ISM”
- PURPLE: WHAT THE “V” MEAN
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #939) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #939, are…
- YELLOW: THINGS YOU CAN DO ON SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENT, LIKE, PEAK, SEND
- GREEN: LAST POINT END, EXTREME, OPPOSITE, POLE
- BLUE: ART MOVEMENTS, WITH “-ISM” BRUTAL, IMPRESSIVE, MADER, REAL
- PURPLE: WHAT THE “V” MEAN FIVE, VERSUS, A LOT, VOLT
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: Perfect
In the early days of social media, I would POST, LIKE and COMMENT for hours before gradually fading into my 10-minute LURK period a day. Now I tend to avoid it altogether and the main reason is the advertising – it’s not that it’s bad, it’s that it’s too good. Seriously, every time I turn on Facebook, TikTok, or Instagram, the ads are so targeted that I find myself making unnecessary spending sprees for cleaning products I never knew I desperately needed.
Anyway, I digress. This was a good day for me as I managed to get the purple group a bit early.
That said, I didn’t get it because I saw that they were all ART MOVEMENTS, WITH ISM. I just saw the “ism” part – if there had been a tile for ‘surreal’ or ‘youth’ I might have seen that too, but MANNER isn’t a movement I’m familiar with.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Sunday, January 4th, Game #938)
- YELLOW: PAPER PUBLICATION COPY, EDIT, EDIT, PRINT
- GREEN: COIL COIL, CRANK, COIL, WIND
- BLUE: THINGS A DEFENSIVE FOOTBALL PLAYER DOES Blitz, BLOCK, SACK, TACKLE
- PURPLE: SYNONYMS FOR BADE PLUS INITIAL LETTER DREAR, ETAIL, GRUMP, SCAN
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.
