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, January 18 (Game #952).
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 #953): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- SILVER
- MINT
- STUDY
- TIME
- ARRANGE
- BUDDING
- MASS
- BUNCH
- COOL
- CURRENT
- WAD
- SAND
- NAIVE
- FORTUNE
- LENGTH
- NEW
NYT Connections Today (Game #953) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Green behind the ears
- GREEN: loads of money
- BLUE: Share the same measurement prefix
- PURPLE: Start with a quick word
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 #953) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: NO EXPERIENCE
- GREEN: 🤑
- BLUE: MEASURED IN UNITS YES
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “QUICK”
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #953): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #953 are…
- YELLOW: NO EXPERIENCE Budding, fresh, naive, new
- GREEN: 🤑 BUNDLE, FORTUNE, MINT, WAD
- BLUE: MEASURED IN UNITS YES CURRENT, LENGTH, MASS, TIME
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “QUICK” ARRANGEMENT, SAND, SILVER, STUDY
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
My first mistake today was thinking we had a group that was about newly released hot products, so I had MINT instead of NAIVE and CURRENT instead of BUDDING in the group that became INEXPERIENCED.
Changing course, I managed to catch up with the Green group. I don’t remember seeing an emoji as a group header before and initially thought the four groups could follow it.
My second mistake came after I identified WORDS AFTER “FAST” but opted for TIME instead of STUDY. I was thinking about the QuickTime video file format, which was once dominant at Apple.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Sunday, January 18, Game #952)
- YELLOW: CHARACTERISTICS OF A DUCK BEAK, FEATHERS, WELTS, WINGS
- GREEN: DESTROY BREAKAGE, DAMAGE, TOTAL, WRECK
- BLUE: FOUND IN A BOOK STAND AUTHOR, QUOTE, SYNOPSIS, TITLE
- PURPLE: CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD ACTORS COOPER, GRANT, PECK, PRICE
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.
