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 Monday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Monday, October 27 (Game #869).
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 (Set #870): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- PELVIS
- CHESTNUT
- HOME
- HIP
- SELECT
- OIL WELL
- TROPE
- BACK
- KENYA
- INTELLIGENT
- MENU
- CLICHE
- AWARE
- OCHER
- TOPIC
- COMPREHENSION
NYT Connections Today (Game #870) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: boring views
- GREEN: The inner track
- BLUE: A device that is not only used to change channels
- PURPLE: Vocalists with a little more
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 #870) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: BANALITY
- GREEN: IN THE KNOWLEDGE
- BLUE: REMOTE CONTROL BUTTONS
- PURPLE: SINGER WITH A NAME PLUS START LETTER
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #870): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #870 are…
- YELLOW: BANALITY CHESTNUT, CLICHE, PLASTIC, TROPE
- GREEN: IN THE KNOWLEDGE CONSCIOUS, CURRENT, INTELLIGENT, WISE
- BLUE: REMOTE CONTROL BUTTONS BACK, HOME, MENU, SELECT
- PURPLE: SINGER WITH A NAME PLUS START LETTER GUSHER, KENYA, OCRE, PELVIS
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 error
I’m sure I wasn’t the only player tempted by the idea of forming a connection between HIP, BACK, and PELVIS today. The only thing that stopped me from putting them in a group was the lack of a quarter of the body.
My mistake came in what would later become BANALITY: I had GUSHER (as in someone who talks banally about a celebrity or paid sponsored product) instead of CHESTNUT, which I forgot was slang for an outdated joke or point of view.
I was delighted to get the purple/hardest group before the end. The draw was PELVIS, but the group also featured someone I interviewed in my past life as a music journalist in what was possibly the most awkward 30 minutes of my life after I pestered them with a cheeky question about an alleged affair and they spent the rest of the interview answering “yes,” “no,” or “I don’t care.”
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Monday, October 27, game #869)
- GREEN: IN THE BEST JUST, SIMPLY, JUST, SIMPLY
- BLUE: cocktail garnishes CHERRY, MINT, OLIVE, TWIST
- PURPLE: ___FOUR CONNECT, FABULOUS, FANTASTIC, SMALL
- YELLOW: EMANATE BRANCH, FAN, RADIATION, PROPAGATION
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 elements 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.
