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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 Tuesday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Tuesday, October 28 (Game #870).
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 #871) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- OUIJA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
- BACKBONE
- PLATFORM
- SESSION
- CRAB
- MEDIUM
- SACRUM
- SPIRIT
- OUTLET
- SEITAN
- ABCEDARY
- HEART
- COMPUTER KEYBOARD
- AGAINST
- PLACE
- THE SEYCHELLES
NEW Connections today (game #871) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Small qualities
- GREEN: A stage for expression
- BLUE: A sound in common
- PURPLE: Alphabetical order
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 #871) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FORTITUDE
- GREEN: CHANNEL
- BLUE: WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH THE “SAY” SOUND
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH LETTERS A TO Z
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #871) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #871, are…
- YELLOW: FORTITUDE BACKGROUND, COURAGE, HEART, SPIRIT
- GREEN: CHANNEL MEDIUM, OUTLET, PLATFORM, PLATFORM
- BLUE: WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH THE “SAY” SOUND SACRUM, SEITAN, SEYCHELLES, SÉANCE
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH LETTERS A TO Z ABECEDARIUM, COMPUTER KEYBOARD, OUIJA BOARD, SCRABBLE
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 1 error
Before I got the yellow/easiest group and kicked myself for not seeing it sooner, I made a mistake I hope I wasn’t alone in – linking SÉANCE, SPIRIT, OUIJA BOARD and MEDIUM, thinking it was a group about contacting the dead.
Fortunately, triumph followed when I got the purple/hardest quartet next after thinking that letters connected SCRABBLE and COMPUTER KEYBOARD.
I didn’t know what an ABECEDARIUM was (an inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order), but it sounded right, and I knew from its appearances in horror movies and ghost stories that an OUIJA TABLE consisted of letters and the words YES and NO.
The blue group was a reminder that you often have to say the words on the tiles as well as read them.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Tuesday, October 28, Game #870)
- 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
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.
