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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 Saturday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Saturday, January 3rd (Game #937).
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 #938) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- GRUMP
- COPY
- BLOCK
- PRESS
- QUESTION
- SCAN
- CRANK
- SACK
- REL
- RETAIL
- TACKLE
- WIND
- DREAM
- FLASH
- COIL
- EDITION
NEW Connections today (game #938) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Publishing business
- GREEN: Coil
- BLUE: Defense
- PURPLE: Extra bully words
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 #938) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PAPER PUBLICATION
- GREEN: COIL
- BLUE: THINGS A DEFENSIVE FOOTBALL PLAYER DOES
- PURPLE: SYNONYMS FOR BADE PLUS INITIAL LETTER
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #938) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #938, are…
- 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
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 1 error
I missed today’s cheeky purple category when I was looking in the wrong places for added letters.
My mistake came when I connected GRUMP, DREAR, WIND and CRANK, thinking they would all work with an extra Y as maybe “miserable male personality traits” or something. That said, I managed to resist another bug by grouping the multi-printer functions – PRINT, COPY and SCAN. The lack of a fourth held me back.
As someone who doesn’t follow the NFL, I was happy to get THINGS A DEFENSIVE FOOTBALL PLAYER DOES, although I was also tempted to put SCAN in here. In soccer, the ability to scan the pitch and know everyone’s positions is a highly respected ability.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Saturday, January 3rd, Game #937)
- YELLOW: THE ARMY CAPTAIN, GENERAL, MAJOR, PRIVATE
- GREEN: LEG WEAR IN SINGULAR JEANS, JOGGERS, OVERALLS, SLIM
- BLUE: RIHANNA #1 HITS DIAMONDS, SOS, UMBRELLA, WORK
- PURPLE: WET_____ BAR, BLANKET, NURSING, WILLY
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.
