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 Friday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Friday, December 5 (Game #908).
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 #909): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- MODERATE
- FOLLOW-UP
- AVERAGE
- CAR
- NEWTON
- INCREDIBLE
- MEAN
- TEMPER
- STANDARD
- TOADY
- COOL
- HENCHMAN
- SETTLE
- ADDERALL
- MONSTER
- PAIR
NYT Connections Today (Game #909) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Regular
- GREEN: calming words
- BLUE: Singular members of animated cinema
- PURPLE: Words that start with animals.
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 #909) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: STANDARD
- GREEN: CALM
- AZUL: MEMBER OF A HEADLINE GROUP IN AN ANIMATION FRANCHISE
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH HERPETOFAUNA
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #909): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #909 are…
- YELLOW: STANDARD AVERAGE, MEAN, EVEN, STANDARD
- GREEN: CALM FRESH, MODERATE, SETTLED, TEMPERATE
- AZUL: MEMBER OF A HEADLINE GROUP IN AN ANIMATION FRANCHISE CAR, AMAZING, MINION, MONSTER
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH HERPETOFAUNA ADDERALL, MONITORING, NEWTON, TOADY
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t thinking of words that START WITH HERPETOFAUNA when I collected ADDERALL, MONITORSHIP, NEWTON and TOADY together. But at first I was thinking that they all had types of animals.
This, however, is one of the things I love about Connections: that it can make you feel stupid while also sending you down a Google rabbit hole of knowledge.
That said, I was disappointed that I didn’t get the blue group from the start, especially after watching the three Pixar films on the list dozens of times.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Friday, December 5, game #908)
- YELLOW: COMPLICATED COMPLEX, DELICATE, STICKY, RESISTANT
- GREEN: STATE OF AFFAIRS TREATMENT, SITUATION, STATUS, HISTORY
- BLUE: CLASSIC BOARD GAMES MASTERMIND, MOUSE TRAP, OPERATION, SORRY
- PURPLE: ____TALK BABY, PILLOW, SMALL, SWEET
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.
