Find the hyperlinks between the phrases to win at the moment’s sport of Connections.
Looking for Tuesday’s Connections hints and solutions as a substitute? You can discover them right here:
It’s Wednesday, and you recognize what meaning: it’s time for one more spherical of Connections!
For the previous couple of years, I’ve been diligently logging each film I watch in Letterboxd. Film was my first actual cultural love and I as soon as harbored desires of creating movies myself (hey, it might nonetheless occur!).
But as I used to be taking a look at my diary within the app not too long ago, I noticed I’ve solely watched 31 movies to this point this 12 months. That’s a reasonably small quantity for me. It doesn’t assist that I’ve solely been to the cinema as soon as so far in 2024, regardless of having the ability to get to a multiplex inside about 25 minutes.
So that’s considered one of my targets for subsequent 12 months, to look at extra motion pictures. I’ve lengthy been that means to look at each entry in Empire’s listing of the five hundred biggest motion pictures of all time from 2008, as voted on by followers, filmmakers and critics. That looks like a superb start line. There are so many so-called classics that I haven’t seen.
Hey, possibly we might begin just a little film membership in our Discord! Speaking of which…
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 method the sport, so be a part of us! It’s enjoyable.
It’s additionally one of the best 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 Wednesday, December 18, are coming proper up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, in style New York Times day by day phrase sport. You get a brand new puzzle at midnight every single day. You can play on the NYT web site or Games app.
You’re introduced with a grid of 16 phrases. Your process is to rearrange them into 4 teams of 4 by determining the hyperlinks between them. The teams may very well be issues like gadgets you possibly can click on, names for analysis research individuals or phrases preceded by a physique half.
There’s just one resolution for every puzzle, and also you’ll must be cautious relating to phrases which may match into a couple of class. You can shuffle the phrases to maybe provide help to see hyperlinks between them.
Each group is shade coded. The yellow group is often the best to determine, blue and inexperienced fall within the center, and the purple group is often essentially the most tough one. The purple group typically includes wordplay.
Select 4 phrases you suppose 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 may 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 make it possible for doesn’t occur with the assistance of some hints, and, if you happen to’re actually struggling, at the moment’s Connections solutions. As with Wordle and different related video games, it’s straightforward to share outcomes with your folks on social media and group chats.
If you may have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you possibly can entry the publication’s Connections archive. This consists of each earlier sport of Connections, so you possibly can return and play any of these that you’ve got missed.
Aside from the primary 60 video games or so, it is best to be capable of discover my hints for every grid through Google if you happen to 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 at the moment’s Connections teams, I’ll reveal what the teams are with out instantly telling you which of them phrases go into them.
Today’s 16 phrases are…
- TACKLE
- TEAPOT
- HOLD
- ONION
- SHORT
- FIELD
- STOUT
- HEDGE
- HANDLE
- SOUR
- TRADE
- CAPITOL
- BITTER
- CHROME
- MANAGE
- BOCK
And the hints for at the moment’s Connections teams are:
- Yellow group — maintain one thing
- Green group — these could be on faucet
- Blue group — frequent phrases on Bay Street or in The City
- Purple group — semi-circular, maybe
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some further assist?
Be warned: we’re beginning to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections teams are…
- Yellow group — cope with
- Green group — kinds of beer
- Blue group — funding verbs
- Purple group — ____ dome
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any additional down the web page till you’re prepared to seek out out at the moment’s Connections solutions.
This is your last warning!
Today’s Connections solutions are…
- Yellow group — cope with (FIELD, HANDLE, MANAGE, TACKLE)
- Green group — kinds of beer (BITTER, BOCK, SOUR, STOUT)
- Blue group — funding verbs (HEDGE, HOLD, SHORT, TRADE)
- Purple group — ____ dome (CAPITOL, CHROME, ONION, TEAPOT)
A second straight good sport, this time with a daily rainbow, extends my streak to 5 wins! Here’s how I fared:
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🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
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No actual points at the moment. I’m beginning to get nervous about what two comparatively straightforward video games — not less than for me — portends for the remainder of the week!
HANDLE and MANAGE guided me towards the yellows. I wasn’t positive about what would go along with BITTER, SOUR and STOUT, however BOCK was the one factor that made sense.
I’ve been studying so much about investing this 12 months, so the blues had been pretty simple. (I could not simply offer you Wall Street for the clue. That would have been too straightforward.) I hesitated for a second about whether or not to incorporate CAPITOL, nevertheless it’s a unique time period from “capital” and it isn’t a verb anyway.
It’s simply as nicely that I received the blues with none difficulty, as a result of I didn’t know ONION dome or TEAPOT dome. I knew the form of an ONION dome, however not what it was known as. Oddly sufficient, it is an onion-shaped dome that is a part of a constructing:
Onion domes at St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow.
Before I appeared it up, I believed a TEAPOT dome was going to be some horrible title for a tea cozy, however no! It’s apparently an enormous political scandal from a century in the past.
I’ve by no means heard of this, and I simply know that I’m about to spend an excessive amount of time studying about it. Probably on YouTube moderately than from books. Thanks for nothing, millennial consideration span!
That’s all there may be to it for at the moment’s Connections clues and solutions. Be positive to examine my weblog tomorrow for hints and the answer for Thursday’s sport if you happen to want them.
P.S. I haven’t got an enormous backstory or spiel about this track. I simply really feel prefer it’s an ideal type of factor for a December Wednesday.
I stumbled onto this randomly, in all probability in a e-newsletter I learn. I do not actually know. I’ve plenty of tabs open at any given time and it was buried in considered one of them. I’d by no means heard of the artist Roy Blair both.
Anyway! I loved this. It’s a enjoyable bop which may assist energize you for the again half of the week. Shimmy shimmy, certainly:
Have an amazing 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.
