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 #928) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- LAREDO
- MUSIC NOTE
- MAKE UP
- PURPLE
- WINE GLASS
- SOLTI
- FLOWERY
- FLOWER
- RETREAT
- COIN
- CHERRY
- HATCH
- EXCESSIVELY
- MEETING
- MIRE
- MELODRAMATIC
NEW Connections today (game #928) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Overly poetic
- GREEN: Make something
- BLUE: See who is stalking
- PURPLE: As heard in The sound of music
Need more clues?
NEW Connections today (game #928) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THE APPEARANCE, LIKE PROSE
- GREEN: CREATE
- BLUE: THINGS IN PLACE
- PURPLE: CONSISTS OF SUNLIGHT (DO-RE-MI)
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #928) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #928, are…
- YELLOW: THE APPEARANCE, LIKE PROSE GORGEOUS, FLOWERY, MELODRAMATIC, PURPLE
- GREEN: CREATE COIN, FASHION, HAT, MAKEUP
- BLUE: THINGS IN PLACE CHERRY, FLOWER, MUSIC NOTE, WINE GLASS
- PURPLE: CONSISTS OF SUNLIGHT (DO-RE-MI) LAREDO, MIRE, PENSION, SOLTI
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: Perfect
They say every day is a school day and there is no day off until Christmas day because today I learned that solfego is a music education system that uses syllables like Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do to teach pitch recognition.
The first thing I thought when I saw the board was that LAREDO didn’t match anything. I knew it was a town in Texas and also the title of a great song by Band of Horses, but I couldn’t see the connection with today’s other ill-fitting word SOLTI.
THINGS WITH STEMS I got very quickly, not because I thought they were all things with stems, but because I thought they were all emojis connected in some way. I love how you can be very wrong but also right when you play Connections.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Wednesday, December 24, Game #927)
- YELLOW: Slang FOR MONEY BACON, BREAD, CHEESE, PAPER
- GREEN: MASTER BITE, CHAMP, CHEW, MUNCH
- BLUE: FISH CHAR, SUNLOCK, SOLE, TONGUE
- PURPLE: WAYS TO VOCALIZE MUSICALLY PLUS A LETTER PULL, RAPT, SING, WHISTLER
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.
