Find the hyperlinks between the phrases to win in the present day’s sport of Connections.
Looking for Monday’s Connections hints and solutions as a substitute? You can discover them right here:
Hey there! I hope your week’s off to an incredible begin.
This is my final full day of labor for the 12 months and I’ve to confess, I’m greater than prepared for some downtime. Don’t fear, I’ll nonetheless be bringing you this column on daily basis. I’ll be engaged on a number of different bits and items I’ve been that means to cross off my to-do checklist as effectively. But aside from that, I’m trying ahead to enjoyable with family members.
Before we get began, I’ve began a dialogue group for Connections and this column on Discord. You can chat about every sport (and different matters) with me and other people. I’m all the time curious how different folks strategy the sport, so be a part of us! It’s enjoyable.
It’s additionally one of the simplest ways to offer me any suggestions concerning the column, particularly on the uncommon(!) events that I mess one thing up.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and solutions for Tuesday, December 17, are coming proper up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, common New York Times day by day phrase sport. You get a brand new puzzle at midnight on daily basis. You can play on the NYT web site or Games app.
You’re offered with a grid of 16 phrases. Your activity is to rearrange them into 4 teams of 4 by determining the hyperlinks between them. The teams might be issues like objects you may click on, names for analysis examine contributors or phrases preceded by a physique half.
There’s just one resolution for every puzzle, and also you’ll should be cautious in the case of phrases which may match into multiple class. You can shuffle the phrases to maybe assist you see hyperlinks between them.
Each group is colour coded. The yellow group is normally the simplest to determine, blue and inexperienced fall within the center, and the purple group is normally probably the most tough one. The purple group typically includes wordplay.
Select 4 phrases you assume go collectively and press Submit. If you make a guess and also you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re near having an accurate group, you would possibly see a message telling you that you just’re one phrase away from getting it proper, however you’ll nonetheless want to determine which one to swap.
If you make 4 errors, it’s sport over. Let’s be sure that doesn’t occur with the assistance of some hints, and, when you’re actually struggling, in the present day’s Connections solutions. As with Wordle and different related video games, it’s simple to share outcomes with your folks on social media and group chats.
If you’ve got an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you may entry the publication’s Connections archive. This contains each earlier sport of Connections, so you may return and play any of these that you’ve missed.
Aside from the primary 60 video games or so, it is best to be capable to discover my hints for every grid through Google when you want them! Just click on right here and add the date of the sport for which you want clues or the solutions to the search question.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for every of in the present day’s Connections teams, I’ll reveal what the teams are with out instantly telling you which ones phrases go into them.
Today’s 16 phrases are…
- TISSUE
- CARPET
- WAX
- PLUCK
- DRAG
- NERVE
- CLAY
- GRAPH
- GRASS
- ARTERY
- HARD
- HEART
- DRIVE
- GRIT
- CONSTRUCTION
- AVENUE
And the hints for in the present day’s Connections teams are:
- Yellow group — guts or dedication
- Green group — what Doc Brown says he and the gang will not want within the remaining scene of Back to the Future
- Blue group — kinds of helpful materials that is produced from bushes
- Purple group — Arthur Ashe, Center, Philippe Chatrier and Rod Laver surfaces
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some additional assist?
Be warned: we’re beginning to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections teams are…
- Yellow group — intrepidity
- Green group — highway
- Blue group — sorts of paper
- Purple group — sorts of tennis courts
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any additional down the web page till you’re prepared to search out out in the present day’s Connections solutions.
This is your remaining warning!
Today’s Connections solutions are…
- Yellow group — intrepidity (GRIT, HEART, NERVE, PLUCK)
- Green group — highway (ARTERY, AVENUE, DRAG, DRIVE)
- Blue group — sorts of paper (CONSTRUCTION, GRAPH, TISSUE, WAX)
- Purple group — sorts of tennis courts (CARPET, CLAY, GRASS, HARD)
An ideal sport brings me as much as 4 wins in a row! Here’s how I fared:
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I grooved by way of this grid prefer it was no-one’s enterprise. Zero issues right here and I will need to have completed it in beneath 30 seconds.
NERVE and PLUCK opened up the greens for me, whereas CARPET and GRASS did the identical for the purples. CONSTRUCTION and GRAPH then made the blues clear, leaving the yellows for the win.
That’s all there’s to it for in the present day’s Connections clues and solutions. Be positive to test my weblog tomorrow for hints and the answer for Wednesday’s sport when you want them.
P.S. Tempted as I’m to advocate Back to the Future — an ideal however barely messed-up film — I’ve bought a sport for you in the present day. You can play this one on iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. It was a paid app, however now it is free and ad-supported.
Galaxy Mix is a spin on Suika Game, which took the Nintendo Switch — and my downtime — by storm final 12 months. Here, you drop completely different celestial our bodies (stars, planets and many others) right into a container. When two matching objects contact, they mix into a much bigger one. The purpose is to create a black gap, however apparently solely 0.1% % of gamers have executed this.
There are couple of twists on the style right here: you may drop a bomb to eliminate planets which are in the best way and shuffle the board by shaking the display.
This is a sport I’ve gone again to time and time once more this 12 months. I actually respect the precision of utilizing my watch dial to place objects earlier than dropping them, however I discover it enjoyable to play on my cellphone too. It’s a protected wager Galaxy Mix will find yourself on my checklist of my favourite video games of 2024:
Have an incredible day! Call somebody you like!
If you’re so inclined, please do observe my weblog for extra protection of Connections and different phrase video games and even some online game information, insights and evaluation. It helps me out so much! Also, observe me on Bluesky! It’s enjoyable there.
