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 4 (Game #938).
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 #939): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- BRUTAL
- IMPRESSION
- VERY
- REAL
- AS
- MANNER
- POLE
- FIVE
- VERSUS
- EXTREME
- END
- OPPOSITE
- COMMENT
- LURK
- VOLT
NYT Connections Today (Game #939) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Behavior on Facebook
- GREEN: very far
- BLUE: A brush with history
- PURPLE: after you
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 #939) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS YOU CAN DO ON SOCIAL MEDIA
- GREEN: OUTER POINT
- BLUE: ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS, WITH “-ISM”
- PURPLE: WHAT THE “V” COULD MEAN
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #939): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #939 are…
- YELLOW: THINGS YOU CAN DO ON SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENT, LIKE, STALK, POST
- GREEN: OUTER POINT EXTREME, EXTREME, OPPOSITE, POL
- BLUE: ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS, WITH “-ISM” BRUTAL, IMPRESSION, MODALITY, REAL
- PURPLE: WHAT THE “V” COULD MEAN FIVE VERSUS VERY VOLT
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
In the early days of social media, I would POST, LIKE, and COMMENT for hours, before gradually fading into my 10-minute-a-day STALKING period. Now I tend to avoid it completely and the main reason is the hype – it’s not that it’s bad, it’s just that it’s too good. Seriously, every time I turn on Facebook, TikTok, or Instagram, the ads are so well targeted that I find myself making unnecessary expenses on cleaning products I never knew I desperately needed.
Anyway, I digress. This was a good day for me as I managed to get to the purple group a little early.
That said, I didn’t understand it because I saw that they were all ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS, WITH ISM. I just saw the “ism” part; if there had been a mosaic for “surreal” or “puppy,” perhaps I would have seen that too, but MANNER is not a movement I am familiar with.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Sunday, January 4, Game #938)
- YELLOW: PAPER PUBLICATION COPY, EDITING, EDITING, PRINTING
- GREEN: REEL COIL, CRANK, REEL, WIND
- BLUE: THINGS A DEFENSIVE FOOTBALLER DOES BLITZ, BLOCK, SACK, TACKLE
- PURPLE: SYNONYMS OF BUTT PLUS START LETTER DREAR, ETAIL, GRUMP, SCAN
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.
