NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, January 15 (game #949)

Date:
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Description:
Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each
day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, January 14 (game #948) .

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #949) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are CEREAL STATIC MELTED SNOW LEVITATE SALT PATRON SHOVEL HOSE STATIONARY SPADE JACKAL FROZEN RAKE DANDRUFF STILL NYT Connections today (game #949) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Used to tame plants GREEN: Not budging BLUE: A shared crystal structure PURPLE: Doubly manly

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 NYT
Connections today (game #949) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: GARDENING TOOLS GREEN: UNMOVING BLUE: THINGS THAT COME IN FLAKES PURPLE: WORDS FORMED
BY TWO MEN'S NAMES

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #949) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #949, are YELLOW: GARDENING TOOLS HOSE, RAKE, SHOVEL, SPADE GREEN: UNMOVING FROZEN, STATIC, STATIONARY, STILL BLUE: THINGS THAT COME IN FLAKES CEREAL, DANDRUFF, SALT, SNOW PURPLE: WORDS FORMED BY TWO MEN'S NAMES JACKAL, LEVITATE, MELTED, PATRON My rating: Hard My score: Perfect

I regret not taking a leap to get the purple group today, as the first thing
I spotted as I looked over the tiles were the mens names in MELTED and
PATRON.

Alas, I failed to spot that they along with LEVITATE and JACKAL were WORDS FORMED BY TWO MEN'S NAMES. Kudos if you got that one.

The rest of the groups were fairly straightforward, once you avoided the trap of putting together a snow-themed quartet. Yesterday's NYT Connections
answers (Wednesday, January 14, game #948) YELLOW: FIXED FAST, FIRM, SECURE, TIGHT GREEN: RECEIVER OF GOODS OR SERVICES ACCOUNT, CLIENT, CONSUMER, USER BLUE: STARTING WITH WEATHER CONDITIONS FROSTY, MISTLETOE, RAINMAKER, SNOWMAN PURPLE: SILENT AUCTION, MOVIE, PARTNER, TREATMENT What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green
is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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