Good day! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers into various categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need clues.
What should you do once you're done? Well, play more word games, of course. I also have daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle's current 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
Today's words from NYT Connections are…
- TIDY
- to the
- ELEGANT
- ELDERLY
- SPRUCE
- AS
- PINE
- MISS
- HEALTHY
- BARELY
- ARK
- PALM
- ABOUT
- RESPECTABLE
- MINERAL
- AROUND
NYT Connections Today (Game #564) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Generally similar
- GREEN: evergreen trees
- BLUE: A decent portion
- PURPLE: Four of the 50
Do you need more clues?
We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the answers are to the four topics for today's NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #564) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: APPROXIMATELY
- GREEN: TREES
- BLUE: LARGE, AS QUANTITY
- PURPLE: US STATE ABBREVIATIONS, ACCORDING TO THE AP STYLE GUIDE
Well, the answers are below, so DON'T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #564): The Answers
The answers to today's Connections game #564 are…
- YELLOW: APPROXIMATELY ABOUT, AROUND, LIKE, Rough
- GREEN: TREES ELDER, PALM, PINE, FIR
- BLUE: LARGE, AS QUANTITY HANDSOME, HEALTHY, RESPECTABLE, ORDERED
- PURPLE: US STATE ABBREVIATIONS, ACCORDING TO THE AP STYLE GUIDE WING, ARK, MISS, MINERAL
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 2 errors
Today I wasted my time thinking that BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY and SPRUCE were connected somehow. I was imagining a shaving gel commercial featuring a muscular man with a chiseled jaw admiring himself in the mirror and thinking about what, erm, ARK he is. Sometimes when you can't find the fourth word it's for a good reason.
After seeing the tree link, I eventually got there, although those state abbreviations were far from obvious and I would never have understood them if it weren't for the fact that they were the last four purple ones. However, we still click on those last four words like we knew all along, right? Yes, yes US STATE ABBREVIATIONS, ACCORDING TO THE AP STYLE GUIDE, yes, yes, I knew that.
Yesterday's NYT Connections Answers (Wednesday, December 25, Game #563)
- YELLOW: CELESTIAL OBJECTS COMET, MOON, PLANET, STAR
- GREEN: ARCHERS CUPID, HAWKEYE, ROBIN HOOD, SAGITTARIUS
- BLUE: FEMALE ANIMALS JENNY, NANNY, QUEEN, VIXEN
- PURPLE: “SNL” CAST MEMBERS FEY, RUDOLPH, SHANNON, STRONG
What are NYT connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created 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 level: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final question since you'll be able to answer it through a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little breathing room.
However, it's a little more complicated than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, be careful with homophones and other puns that could disguise answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
