Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Each day’s game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before today’s NYT Connections hints, here’s what you missed on Tuesday:
ForbesNYT Connections Hints Today: Tuesday, January 20 Clues And Answers (#954)By Kris Holt
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!
I am currently on a top-secret mission that’s coming to an end today. I’ll spill the beans about that very soon, but it’s been fun and nice to have a break from my usual routine.
This mission has been been a reminder that I need to shake things up in my life more often. I am a creature of habit, and staying home by myself most of the time isn’t exactly ideal. So I’m going to get out more this year.
Having a bunch of concerts lined up for the coming months will help, but I should go do other things too. I need to have more experiences so I have more things to write about anyway. Also, I guess I can justify things I spend money on and write about as a tax writeoff? Even more incentive for me to go do more stuff.
Before we start, I want to mention the great community we have on Discord, where we chat about Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. It’s a lovely, welcoming group of folks. I like to call it our cozy little corner of the internet. You’re more than welcome to join us. Don’t be shy!
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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, January 21 are coming right up. Let’s get rolling!
NYT Connections – How To Play
Connections is a free New York Times daily word game that you can play on the NYT’s website or Games app. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive, which includes every previous game.
Connections presents you with a grid of 16 words (sometimes phrases, symbols or numbers). The aim is to arrange them into four groups of four. You don’t know how they hit together or what the category for each group is: that’s what you have to figure out.
There’s only one correct solution and there are often red herrings. You can guess incorrectly three times. A fourth wrong guess, and it’s game over.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to deduce, followed by blue, green and purple. Often, the yellow and green groups have synonyms, the blues have cultural references and the purples have some kind of wordplay involved. But this is not a hard and fast rule. Be ready for curveballs – part of the fun of Connections is in how the NYT shakes things up to keep you on your toes.
As with Wordle and similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends using an emoji-based grid. The game tracks your progress too.
Many players take pride in having long win streaks or getting a reverse rainbow – correctly guessing the purple, blue, green and yellow groups in that order with no mistakes. That adds an extra little challenge.
NYT Connections Hints – Today’s Word List
Scroll slowly! I’ll first give you a list of today’s words, then a hint for each category. After that, I’ll reveal one word that goes into each group. Then I’ll tell you the category names, followed by the full answers.
Today’s 16 words are…
THROWCRIBCOPYNEWSPAPERPIRATECAVEBOTTLEMOBILEBLANKETCANLIFTSIGNALSHAMSUITCARDBOARD BOXSHEETNYT Connections Hints
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
🟨 Yellow group — can be converted for a future use🟩 Green group — you might not want to nod off without them🟦 Blue group — a whole bunch of media companies are suing the makers of generative A.I. chatbots that allegedly do this 🟪 Purple group — it might be a dark night for anyone who runs into someone who uses these thingsNYT Connections Hints – One Answer Per Group
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let’s take a look at one answer for each group.
Here we go…
🟨 Yellow group — CARDBOARD BOX🟩 Green group — SHEET🟦 Blue group — CRIB🟪 Purple group — SIGNALNYT Connections Hints – Groups/Categories
Today’s Connections groups are…
🟨 Yellow group — items to recycle🟩 Green group — bedding 🟦 Blue group — plagiarize 🟪 Purple group — Batman’s “bat” things NYT Connections Answers
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your last chance to look away.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
🟨 Yellow group — items to recycle (BOTTLE, CAN, CARDBOARD BOX, NEWSPAPER)🟩 Green group — bedding (BLANKET, SHAM, SHEET, THROW)🟦 Blue group — plagiarize (COPY, CRIB, LIFT, PIRATE)🟪 Purple group — Batman’s “bat” things (CAVE, MOBILE, SIGNAL, SUIT)
CRIB and PIRATE helped me get the blues after I disregarded CRIB, BLANKET and MOBILE as a red herring of things you’d find in a baby’s room.
With MOBILE ruled out for that particular red herring, I then figured out the purples. These are things Batman has or uses or is otherwise associated with i.e. the BatCAVE, BatMOBILE, Bat SIGNAL and BatSUIT.
NEWSPAPER and CARDBOARD BOX then paved the way for the yellows. That left the greens, which were evident enough at that point.
A perfect game extends my current streak to 326 wins. Holy smokes.
How did you get on today? Here’s my grid for this one:
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That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I had somehow landed on an ‘80s music channel while I was looking for something to watch on T.V. the other day. After a couple of songs I recognized on some “underrated hits of the decade” thing, this song played. I’d never heard it before to the best of my knowledge, but I quite enjoyed “Love and Pride” by King:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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