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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 Monday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Monday, October 27 (Game #869).
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 #870) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- PELVIS
- CHESTNUT
- HOME
- HIP
- SELECT
- GUSHER
- TROOP
- BACK
- KENYA
- WISE
- MENU
- CLICHE
- conscious
- OKAY
- PLITTUDE
- SEXUALLY
NEW Connections today (game #870) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Boring prospects
- GREEN: The inside track
- BLUE: A device that is not just for changing channels
- PURPLE: Vocalists with a little extra
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 #870) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: BANALITY
- GREEN: YOU KNOW
- BLUE: REMOTE CONTROL BUTTONS
- PURPLE: ONE NAMED SINGER PLUS INITIAL LETTER
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #870) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #870, are…
- YELLOW: BANALITY CHESTNUT, CLICHE, PLATID, TROP
- GREEN: YOU KNOW ENLIGHTENMENT, HIP, CLIMATE, WISE
- BLUE: REMOTE CONTROL BUTTONS BACK, HOME, MENU, SELECT
- PURPLE: ONE NAMED SINGER PLUS INITIAL LETTER GUSHER, KENYA, OCHER, THE brook
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 1 error
I’m sure I wasn’t the only player tempted by the idea of forming a connection between the HIP, BACK and PELVIS today. The only thing that stopped me from putting them in a group was the lack of a fourth body part.
My mistake came in what would later become BANALITY – I had GUSHER (as in someone who guffaws banally about a celebrity or a paid sponsored product) instead of CHESTNUT, which I forgot was slang for an old joke or point of view.
I was happy to get the purple/hardest group before the end. The giveaway was PELVIS, but the group also included someone who I interviewed in my former life as a music journalist for what was possibly the most awkward 30 minutes of my life after I upset them with a cheeky question about an alleged affair and they spent the rest of the interview answering either “yes”, “no” or “I don’t care”.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answer (Monday, October 27, Game #869)
- GREEN: AT LEAST JUST, JUST, ONLY, Simply
- BLUE: COCKTAIL DECORATIONS CHERRY, MINT, OLIVE, TWIST
- PURPLE: ___FOUR CONNECT, FAB, AWESOME, PETIT
- YELLOW: EXIT BRANCHES, FAN, BEAM, SPREAD
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.
