Good morning! Let’s play Connections, Nyt’s smart puns that challenge you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need clues.
What are you going to do when you are done? Why, play some more word games of course. I also have daily beach tips and answers and Quordle-Hints and Svar articles if you also need help with them, while Marc’s Wordle Today-page covers the original viral word game.
Spoiler Warning: Information about New Connections Today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
New Connections Today (Play #594) – The Word of the Today
Today’s New Connections word is …
- Ginkgo
- SLOPE
- Emoji
- ANGLE
- BULGE
- Tycoon
- Saving
- Mogul
- Lodge
- LUNCH
- Pod
- Karaoke
- Class
- CYCLE
- ELEVATOR
- Home Room
New Connections Today (Play #594) – Tip #1 – Group Tip
What are some traces for today’s new Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Timetable
- GREEN: As seen by Powder Mountain
- BLUE: Heard in Tokyo
- Purple: May try harder
Need more clues?
We are firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s new connections gangs …
New Connections Today (Games #594) – Tip #2 – Group Swit
What are the answers for today’s new Connections groups?
- Yellow: School periods
- Green: Properties in a ski resort
- Blue: Words derived from Japanese
- Purple: Words after the Prefixed “tri-“
Okay, the answers are below, so don’t roll learn if you don’t want to see them.
New Connections Today (Play #594) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections, Game #594, is …
- Yellow: School periods Class, home room, lunch, frying
- Green: Properties in a ski resort Lift, Lodge, Mogul, Slope
- Blue: Words derived from Japanese Emoji, ginkgo, karaoke, tycoon
- Purple: Words after the Prefixed “tri-“ Angle, Cycling, Buik, Pod
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 2 Errors
When I saw Ginkgo, I immediately thought a group had to be about Japan. In my first guess I omitted karaoke and included mogul instead – my thought is that it was a trick as there was recently a news about a city in England named Stockport, which claims to be the birthplace of karaoke, rather than Japan . But I was wrong. Obviously
The legend says that a shop owner named Roy Brooke invented Karaoke – largely singing on the hits of the time – in the early 1990s, but it was stolen by some visitors from Japan who continued to market it around the world .
Karaoke is still massive in Stockport, where 12 pub teams compete against each other every Monday to be crowned as Karaoke Champions of Stockport. And that bit is a true story at least!
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s New Connections response (Friday, January 24, Games #593)
- Yellow: Consider Brood, muse, primer, reflect
- Green: Rude things to do Disconnect, Scratch, Peg, Stirer
- Blue: Call Craftsmanship, line, trade, work
- Purple: -_patch Cabbage, nicotine, rough, soul
What is new connections?
New Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made 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 difficulty: Green is light, yellow a little harder, blue often quite cool and purple usually very difficult.
On the positive side, you technically do not have to solve the last one, as you will be able to answer it by an elimination process. In addition, you can make up to four errors, giving you a little bit of respite.
However, it is a little more involved than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you go up with tricks. For example, be careful on gay and other word games that can hide the answers.
It can be played for free via the new Games page on desktop or mobile.
