NYT Connections today my hints and answers for Thursday, December 12 (game #550)

Date:
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:02:00 +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.

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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 clues.

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 #550) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are See picture for clues! But if you want a description Ice cream Bed Saw Tee-shirt Music notes Gear Rodents of some kind Triangle Zipper Nuts Hot drink in a cup Multiple letter Gs Mouth Golf tee
Comb Building with dollar sign NYT Connections today (game #550) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: The A-Team's 'Mr' Green: They're not all for eating Blue: How rude! Purple: Watercourse elements

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 #550) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: THINGS THAT SOUND LIKE "T" GREEN: OBJECTS WITH TEETH BLUE: MILD OATHS PURPLE: PARTS OF A RIVER

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #550) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #550, are YELLOW: THINGS THAT SOUND LIKE "T" TEA, TEE (GOLF), TEE (SHIRT), TI (MUSICAL NOTE) GREEN: OBJECTS WITH TEETH COMB, GEAR, SAW, ZIPPER BLUE: MILD OATHS FUDGE, GEEZ, NUTS, RATS
PURPLE: PARTS OF A RIVER BANK, BED, DELTA, MOUTH My rating: Impossible My score: Fail

Oh come on, NYT! Seriously? This is just too hard to even remotely count as fun. Will anyone solve this today? Am I just stupid? Pictograms are fine as a concept, and yeah it's a welcome change from the normal Connections routine, shaking things up a bit but if you're going to do this at least make it a little easier!

Or maybe I just got unlucky, because I was on the right path with a couple of today's groups. It's just that there were so many options that might have worked, I was left scrabbling around in the dark.

For instance, I spotted right away that SAW, ZIPPER, GEAR and COMB were all OBJECTS WITH TEETH, but so is a MOUTH, so I included that twice and lost a couple of guesses there. Ditto MILD OATHS; I had GEEZ (Gs), RATS and NUTS,
but thought the fourth was D'OH as in Homer Simpson, based on the picture of
a musical score with the word DO written on it. Trouble was, the arrow was pointing to a different note, and I don't read music so never realized that was actually a TI and instead went with a different group; the real final answer was FUDGE.

So actually yeah, let's talk about some of these pictures, because how was anyone supposed to know that bit near the top of the ice cream was FUDGE? It could be anything! It could be chocolate or strawberry sauce, it's not like this is a high-resolution photo. And as for DELTA I mean that's a triangle.

I'm never playing this game again (until tomorrow). Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 11 December, game #549) YELLOW: UTOPIA PARADISE, SEVENTH HEAVEN, SHANGRI-LA, XANADU GREEN: THINGS YOU SHAKE HAIRSPRAY, MAGIC 8 BALL, SALAD DRESSING, SNOWGLOBE BLUE: PROPER NOUN PORTMANTEAUX JAZZERCISE, PARALYMPICS, POKMON, WIKIPEDIA PURPLE: ENDING IN SYNONYMS FOR "FRIEND" KETCHUM, PAYPAL, PRIMATE, ROSEBUD 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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NYT Connections today my hints and answers for Thursday, December 19 (game #557)

Date:
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:02:00 +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 ======================================================================

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 clues.

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 #556) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are TAP TUG KEG BARREL TABLE SUB BARGE HAMMER COUNTER LADDER GORILLA SHELVE JUNK DELAY STOOL POSTPONE NYT Connections today (game #557) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Raincheck GREEN: Saloon staples BLUE: Vessels PURPLE: Nintendo classic

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 #557) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: DEFER GREEN: BAR FIXTURES BLUE: WATERCRAFT PURPLE: SEEN IN "DONKEY KONG"

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #557) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #557, are YELLOW: DEFER DELAY, POSTPONE, SHELVE, TABLE GREEN: BAR FIXTURES COUNTER, KEG, STOOL, TAP BLUE: WATERCRAFT BARGE, JUNK, SUB, TUG PURPLE: SEEN IN "DONKEY KONG" BARREL, GORILLA, HAMMER, LADDER My rating: Moderate My score: 2 mistakes

In the mental Venn diagrams I was drawing today, two or three words could
have gone in several categories TABLE (Yellow and Green), JUNK (Yellow and Blue), BARREL (Green and Purple) and I fell for them all

First I put JUNK instead of TABLE into what would become the Yellow group, then, thinking I was onto a sure thing, put BARREL in the Blue group Barrel Boats are a thing right? Er maybe not.

Having never played Donkey Kong (Im more of a board game person) I was thankful that this group was the leftovers and done for me. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 18 December, game #556) YELLOW: DEAL WITH FIELD, HANDLE, MANAGE, TACKLE GREEN: STYLES OF BEER BITTER, BOCK, SOUR, STOUT BLUE: INVESTMENT VERBS HEDGE, HOLD, SHORT, TRADE PURPLE: _DOME CAPITOL, CHROME, ONION, TEAPOT 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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NYT Connections today my hints and answers for Thursday, December 26 (game #564)

Date:
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:02:00 +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 ======================================================================

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 clues.

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 #564) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are TIDY ALA HANDSOME ELDER SPRUCE LIKE PINE MISS HEALTHY ROUGHLY ARK PALM ABOUT RESPECTABLE ORE AROUND NYT Connections today (game #564) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Generally similar GREEN: Evergreens BLUE: A decent portion PURPLE: Four of the 50

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 #564) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW:
APPROXIMATELY GREEN: TREES BLUE: SIZABLE, AS AN AMOUNT PURPLE: U.S. STATE ABBREVIATIONS, PER AP STYLE GUIDE

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #564) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #564, are YELLOW: APPROXIMATELY ABOUT, AROUND, LIKE, ROUGHLY GREEN: TREES ELDER, PALM, PINE, SPRUCE BLUE: SIZABLE, AS AN AMOUNT HANDSOME, HEALTHY, RESPECTABLE, TIDY PURPLE: U.S. STATE ABBREVIATIONS, PER AP STYLE GUIDE ALA, ARK, MISS, ORE My rating: Moderate My score: 2 mistakes

I wasted time today thinking HANDSOME, HEALTHY and SPRUCE were somehow connected I was imagining some shaving gel commercial featuring some buff
man with a chiseled jaw admiring himself in the mirror and thinking how, erm, ARK he is. Sometimes when you cant find the fourth word its for a good
reason.

After seeing the tree link, I got there in the end although those state abbreviations were far from obvious and I would never have got them if it wasnt for the fact that they were the final Purple four. We still click on those last four words like we knew all along though, right? Yeah, yeah U.S. STATE ABBREVIATIONS, PER AP STYLE GUIDE, yeah, yeah, I knew that. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 25 December, game #563) YELLOW: CELESTIAL OBJECTS COMET, MOON, PLANET, STAR GREEN: ARCHERS CUPID, HAWKEYE, ROBIN HOOD, SAGITTARIUS BLUE: FEMALE ANIMALS JENNY, NANNY, QUEEN, VIXEN PURPLE: "S.N.L." CAST MEMBERS FEY, RUDOLPH, SHANNON, STRONG 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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