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 Tuesday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Tuesday, October 21 (Game #863).
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.
What should you do once you’re done? Well, play more word games, of course. I also have daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle’s current page covers the original viral word game.
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 #864): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- FASHION
- WRITER
- PASTA
- SHAPE
- PHARAOH
- TAILOR
- FIRE
- WATER
- GAS
- CARPENTER
- ELECTRIC
- MOLD
- PHONE
- CAT
- GOOD
- ARMY
NYT Connections Today (Game #864) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Common services
- GREEN: Custom made
- BLUE: Different types of a common insect.
- PURPLE: Start with a word that means duplicate.
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 #864) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PUBLIC SERVICES
- GREEN: ADAPT TO YOUR NEEDS
- BLUE: TYPES OF ANTS
- PURPLE: COPY____
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #864): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #864 are…
- YELLOW: PUBLIC SERVICES ELECTRICITY, GAS, TELEPHONE, WATER
- GREEN: ADAPT TO YOUR NEEDS FASHION, MOLD, SHAPE, CUSTOMIZED
- BLUE: TYPES OF ANTS ARMY, CARPENTER, FIRE, PHARAOH
- PURPLE: COPY____ CAT, PASTA, RIGHT, WRITER
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
When I saw ELECTRICITY, GAS and WATER, the first thing I thought of was the game Monopoly, which is a strange way to get to UTILITIES, I guess, but the brain works in mysterious ways.
As someone who once made a living as a copywriter (I worked on everything from a furnace instruction manual to the history of a Dutch dredging company, a task now mostly outsourced to AI), I really should have gotten the purple group. Instead, ADAPT TO YOUR NEEDS appeared.
FIRE and CARPENTER helped me get TYPES OF ANTS, a group I could have gotten more quickly if I included “man” or “Adam.”
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Tuesday, October 21, Game #863)
- YELLOW: PLAYING CARDS ACE, JACKS, KINGS, QUEENS
- GREEN: ASSUME DIRECTIONS, DOES, MANAGES, JOBS
- BLUE: NBA TEAMS BUCKS, BULLS, HORNETS, SPURS
- PURPLE: THINGS YOU CAN CONTROL WITH REMOTE CONTROLS DRONES, GARAGE DOORS, TVS, WIIS
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.
