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A new NEW Connections puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people always play ‘today’s game’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Friday, February 6 (Game #971).
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 #972) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
(See the picture above! But here comes…)
- Two dots arranged vertically
- Vertical line
- Four dots in a square
- Plus symbol
- Five dots in an X format
- Two small rectangles arranged horizontally at the top of the frame
- Horizontal line
- Cross symbol
- Letter in shape
- Two horizontal lines arranged vertically
- Three dots in a diagonal pattern
- Three dots arranged horizontally at the bottom of the frame
- Separation symbol
- Single dot at the bottom of the frame
- Small X at the bottom of the frame
- Two dots arranged diagonally
NEW Connections today (game #972) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Page of dice
- GREEN: Basic mathematics
- BLUE: Required for grammar
- PURPLE: Not capital letters
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 #972) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PIPS ON A DIE
- GREEN: SYMBOLS USED IN ARITHMETIC
- BLUE: CHARACTER PLATE
- PURPLE: SMALL LETTERS
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #972) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #972, are…
- YELLOW: PIPS ON A DIE FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO
- GREEN: SYMBOLS USED IN ARITHMETIC DIVIDE BY, EQUAL, MINUS, PLUS
- BLUE: CHARACTER PLATE COLON, ELLIPSE, PERIOD, QUOTATION MARK
- PURPLE: SMALL LETTERS I, L, T, X
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
These kinds of Connections games are meant to confuse and unsettle the brain, and they certainly do for me. But as my brain calmed down, I began to see some connections.
My first mistake came in misremembering how the number two appears on a die – I chose the two dots that symbolize a COLON. After correcting that error, I put the x (thinking it meant multiplication) in the SYMBOLS USED IN ARITHMETIC group. I got SMALL LETTERS, but I was unsure about the letter t, which looked more like a cross.
Hopefully we won’t have to go through one of these experiments again for a while!
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Friday, February 6, Game #971)
- YELLOW: GOODS AT A COFFEE STATION CUP, LID, TUBE, STRAW
- GREEN: THINGS WITH STRIPES CANDY CANE, CROSSWALK, JUDGE, TIGER
- BLUE: WORDS BEFORE “FLY” IN INSECT NAMES BUTTER, DRAGON, FIRE, HORSE
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF GREETINGS CHOW, HAY, HIGH, YEEOH
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.
