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 Connections tips.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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NYT Connections Today (Set #1047) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- MOTHER
- MY
- NEIGHBOR
- TOTORO
- TAP
- !!!!!!
- SKIRT
- SCIENCE
- PULP
- POLITE
- LITERARY
- ASIAGO
- DEVOTE
- VERY
- HISTORICAL
- FLANK
NYT Connections Today (Game #1047) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Close to the edge
- GREEN: Types of narrative history
- BLUE: Scientific memory learning phrase.
- PURPLE: Words that start with retro pop groups.
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 #1047) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: EDGE
- GREEN: TYPES OF FICTION
- BLUE: WORDS IN A PLANETARY MNEMONIC
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH FOUR-LETTER BANDS FROM THE 80S
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1047): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1047 are…
- YELLOW: BORDER FLANK, NEIGHBOR, SKIRT, TOUCH
- GREEN: TYPES OF FICTION HISTORICAL, LITERARY, PULP, SCIENCE
- BLUE: WORDS IN A PLANETARY MNEMONIC EDUCATE, MOTHER, MY, VERY
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH FOUR-LETTER BANDS FROM THE 80S ASIAGO, DEVOTE, TOTORO, WHAMMY
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
I think this is my favorite “first purple.”
Partly it’s because I managed to avoid thinking that the Studio Ghibli classic my neighbor totoro was more than just an inside joke, secondly because I managed to avoid including PULP and thirdly because I saw the link between Toto, Devo and Wham in the first place.
ASIAGO was an educated guess, but let’s just say Asia wasn’t in the same league as the others STARTING WITH FOUR LETTER BANDS OF THE 80’S.
I was also very pleased to have fairly complicated yellow and green groups, a good thing since the mnemonic My very educated mother just served us noodles didn’t exist at my school (but neither did education). Now I know that it is a way to remember the order of the planets from the sun.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Tuesday, April 21, game #1045)
- YELLOW: CERAMIC EQUIPMENT CLAY, ENAMEL, OVEN, WHEEL
- GREEN: HIT COVER, PUNCH, SLUG, SOCK
- BLUE: WORDS PRONOUNCED IN DIFFERENT WAYS AS PROPER NOUNS GRASS, NICE, POLISH, READING
- PURPLE: COLLECT ____ ARTIST, GAME, STICKS, TRUCK
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 items 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.
