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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 the Sunday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Sunday, January 18 (Game #952).
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 #953) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- SILVER
- MINT
- STUDY
- TIME
- MAKE
- budding
- LOT
- BUNDLE
- FRESH
- CURRENT
- WAD
- SAND
- NAIVE
- ASSETS
- LENGTH
- NEW
NEW Connections today (game #953) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Green behind the ears
- GREEN: Load money
- BLUE: Share the same measurement prefix
- PURPLE: Start with a quick 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 #953) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: INEXPERIENCED
- GREEN: 🤑
- BLUE: MEASURED IN SI UNITS
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “FAST”
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #953) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #953, are…
- YELLOW: INEXPERIENCED budding, FRESH, NAIVE, NEW
- GREEN: 🤑 BUNDLE, FORTUNE, MINT, WAD
- BLUE: MEASURED IN SI UNITS CURRENT, LENGTH, MASS, TIME
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “FAST” FIX, SAND, SILVER, STUDIES
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
My first mistake today was thinking we had a group that was all about hot, just released products, so I had MINT instead of NAIVE and CURRENT instead of BUDDING in the group that became INEXPERIENCED.
By changing pace I managed to get the green group. I don’t recall seeing an emoji as a group header before and initially thought all four groups could follow suit.
My second mistake came after identifying WORDS AFTER “FAST” but I chose TIME instead of STUDY. I thought of the once-dominant Apple video file format QuickTime.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Sunday, January 18th, Game #952)
- YELLOW: FEATURES OF A DUCK BUBBLING, FEATHERS, WEBBING, WINGS
- GREEN: DESTROY BREAK, DAMAGE, TOTAL, RUBRIC
- BLUE: FOUND ON A BOOK JACKET AUTHOR, QUOTE, SYNOPSIS, TITLE
- PURPLE: CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD ACTORS BUCKS, GRANT, PACK, PRICE
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.
