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.
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NEW Connections today (game #1047) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- MOTHER
- MY
- NEIGHBOR
- TOTORO
- TOUCH
- WELL
- SKIRT
- SCIENCE
- PULP
- EDUCATED
- LITERARY
- ASIAGO
- SAINTS
- VERY
- HISTORIC
- FLANK
NEW Connections today (game #1047) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Close to the edge
- GREEN: Types of Narrative Story
- BLUE: Science Memory Learning Phrases
- PURPLE: Words that start with retro pop groups
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 #1047) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: LIMIT
- GREEN: FORM OF FICTION
- BLUE: WORDS IN A PLANETARY MNEMONIC
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH FOUR LETTER 80’S BAND
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1047) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1047, are…
- YELLOW: LIMIT FLANK, NEIGHBOR, SKIRT, TOUCH
- GREEN: FORM OF FICTION HISTORICAL, LITERARY, MASS, SCIENCE
- BLUE: WORDS IN A PLANETARY MNEMONIC EDUCATED, MOTHER, MINE, A LOT
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH FOUR LETTERS 80’S BANDS ASIAGO, DEVOTE, TOTORO, WHAMMY
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: Perfect
I think this is my favorite ever “purple first”.
Partly it’s because I managed to avoid thinking about the Studio Ghibli classic My neighbor Totoro was anything but an in-joke, secondly because I managed to avoid including PULP and thirdly because I saw the connection between Toto, Devo and Wham in the first place.
ASIAGO was an educated guess, but let’s just say Asia wasn’t in the same league as the other FOUR LETTER 80’S BAND STARTER.
I was also pretty happy to get pretty tricky yellow and green groups, a good thing since my moniker My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles wasn’t a thing at my school (but then neither was education). I now know that it is a way of remembering the order of the planets from the sun.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Tuesday, April 21st, Game #1045)
- YELLOW: POTTERY EQUIPMENT CLAY, GLAZE, OVEN, WHEEL
- GREEN: PERIOD TIRE, PUNCH, SWALLOW, SOCK
- BLUE: WORDS ARE PRONOUNCED DIFFERENT WAYS AS SPECIFIC LETTERS HERBS, BEAUTIFUL, POLISH, READING
- PURPLE: COLLECTION ____ ARTIST, GAME, STICK, TRUCK
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.
