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 #899) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- JAN
- SEC
- IRA
- MAR
- APR
- CAT
- GOD
- MAY
- FLOW
- DEB
- CAN
- LOSS
- COULD
- CFO
- PROCEEDINGS
- POWER
NEW Connections today (game #899) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: It happens… maybe
- GREEN: Female names
- BLUE: Short money
- PURPLE: Animals read the wrong way
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 #899) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: VERBS THAT EXPRESS POSSIBILITY
- GREEN: WOMEN’S NICKNAMES
- BLUE: FINANCIAL ABBREVIATIONS
- PURPLE: BEHIND ANIMALS
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #899) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #899, are…
- YELLOW: VERBS THAT EXPRESS POSSIBILITY CAN, COULD, MUST, MAYBE
- GREEN: WOMEN’S NICKNAMES DEB, JAN, KAT, SUE
- BLUE: FINANCIAL ABBREVIATIONS APR, CFO, IRA, SEC
- PURPLE: BEHIND ANIMALS FLOW, GOD, MAR, TAB
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 1 error
That kind of game – where all the pieces look alike – bugs me, which may explain the odd order I got today’s categories in. It’s always weird when the yellow/easiest category is the last one you get.
Before that, however, I made the most obvious mistake one could make today, choosing the four words that were also abbreviations for months.
CFO and APR were the keys to unlocking FINANCIAL ABBREVIATIONS, but I won’t pretend to know what the other two tiles mean. While BEHIND ANIMALS again seemed too obvious to be a purple group – GOD was the tile that made me see the others here. Dog bless you all.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Tuesday, November 25, Game #898)
- YELLOW: SMALL TIME MICKEY MOUSE, RINKY-DINK, TRIVIAL, TWO-BIT
- GREEN: THINGS THAT ARE PINK BARBIE DREAM HOUSE, CALAMINE LOTION, CHERRY BLOSSOM, FLAMINGO
- BLUE: THINGS YOU CAN SCRATCH BUG BIT, LOTTERY TICKET, VINYL RECORD, YOUR HEAD
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH OPTIMISTIC WORDS HAPPY HAND, HAPPY MEAL, WELL AROUND, SUNSHINE UP
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.
