Are you looking for a different day?
A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone, which means some people are always playing “today’s game” while others play “yesterday’s game.” If instead you are looking for the Sunday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Sunday, December 14 (Game #917).
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.
NYT Connections Today (Game #918): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- SEE
- MONSTER
- ROOM
- HUNDRED
- SEMI
- CELSIUS
- BUMPER
- DUMP
- JOINT
- GIANT
- END
- HOLE
- TITANIC
- INDEX
- DIVING
- COLD
NYT Connections Today (Game #918) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: The road to glory
- GREEN: Massive
- BLUE: hard place
- PURPLE: Multiple meanings of a letter.
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 #918) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TOURNAMENT ROUNDS
- GREEN: HUGE
- BLUE: ESTABLISHMENT OF NASTY
- PURPLE: WHAT “C” COULD MEAN
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #918): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #918 are…
- YELLOW: TOURNAMENT ROUNDS FINAL, CLASSIFICATION, QUARTERS, SEMI
- GREEN: HUGE BUMPER, GIANT, MONSTER, TITANIC
- BLUE: ESTABLISHMENT OF NASTY DIVE, DIP, HOLE, JOINT
- PURPLE: WHAT “C” COULD MEAN CELSIUS, COLD, HUNDRED, SEE
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
Aside from being upset about not getting the purple group, which is pretty easy, I’m delighted to have gotten through a game in order of difficulty.
With the fever dream horror of the World Cup draw still heavy on my mind, TOURNAMENT ROUNDS appeared instantly, as did HUGE, with its reminder of the meaning of TITANIC.
By the way, there’s a Thai restaurant near where I live in London called Thai Tanic, a really disastrous name in many ways, but apparently they make a very nice Khao Soi.
Anyway, I digress. JOINT was an outlier in the DISCRETE ESTABLISHMENT group, but perhaps “bargain” would have been too low.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Sunday, December 14, game #917)
- YELLOW: PUT IT ON THICK ALABAMA, ALABAMA, FUTURE, PRAISE
- GREEN: FIGURES BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON DUCK, EMPEROR, MERMAID, PRINCESS
- BLUE: SILENT “L” CALF, CHALK, COLONEL, HARÍA
- PURPLE: FICTION PIGS BABY, NAPOLEON, PIGLET, PORKY
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.
