Hints and Answers for Today’s NYT Connections Game

NEW YORK, NY — The New York Times‘ latest word game, Connections, continues to captivate puzzle enthusiasts with its engaging challenges. Each day, players are tasked with grouping 16 words into four categories, testing their word association skills and lateral thinking.

Since its launch, Connections has gained significant popularity, complementing the Times’ renowned crossword puzzles. The game resets at midnight every day, offering players a fresh set of words, often with increasing complexity. The gameplay involves identifying common threads between words that may seem to fit together but only one grouping is correct.

Players can make up to four mistakes before the game ends, but they can also rearrange and shuffle the words to help spot connections more easily. Each grouping is color-coded to indicate difficulty levels, with yellow as the easiest and purple the most challenging.

Recent puzzles have included a special Mother’s Day theme to coincide with today’s game. Players have been guided with hints to uncover groups, such as the following: for the yellow group themed around happiness, the words include delight, please, suit, and tickle. The green group is centered on evasion with dodge, duck, shake, and skirt, while the blue group relates to video game features with boss, health, level, and power-up. Finally, the purple group, which is the trickiest, includes mother earth, goose, may I, and superior.

The popularity of Connections shows no sign of slowing down, with thousands of players sharing their results every day on social media. Each correct grouping removes the words from play and players can track their performance over time.

For those who missed out on puzzle number 700, there are always new Challenges every day, keeping fans engaged and eager for more. So, if you missed today’s challenge, fear not; a new set awaits tomorrow.