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 28 (Game #870).
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 #871): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- OUIJA BOARD
- BACKBONE
- PLATFORM
- SESSION
- SCRATCH
- HALF
- SACRUM
- SPIRIT
- EXIT
- SEITAN
- ALPHABET
- HEART
- COMPUTER KEYBOARD
- COURAGE
- EVENT
- SEYCHELLES
NYT Connections Today (Game #871) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Courageous qualities
- GREEN: A stage for expression
- BLUE: A common sound
- PURPLE: Alphabetic order
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 #871) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: STRENGTH
- GREEN: CHANNEL
- BLUE: WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH THE SOUND “SAY”
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH THE LETTERS AA TO Z
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #871): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #871 are…
- YELLOW: STRENGTH SPINE, COURAGE, HEART, SPIRIT
- GREEN: CHANNEL MEDIUM, OUTLET, PLATFORM, PLACE
- BLUE: WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH THE SOUND “SAY” SACRUM, SEITAN, SEYCHELLES, SÉANCE
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH THE LETTERS AA TO Z ALPHABET, COMPUTER KEYBOARD, OUIJA BOARD, SCRABBLE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 error
Before I got the yellow/easier group and beat myself up for not seeing it before, I made a mistake that I hope I’m not alone in: linking SÉANCE, SPIRIT, OUIJA BOARD and MEDIUM, thinking it was a group about contact with the dead.
Fortunately, triumph followed when I got the next purple/hardest quartet, after thinking the letters connected SCRABBLE and COMPUTER KEYBOARD.
I didn’t know what ABECEDARIUM was (an inscription made up of the letters of an alphabet, almost always numbered in order) but it sounded good and I knew from its appearances in horror movies and ghost stories that an OUIJA BOARD was made up of letters and the words YES and NO.
The blue group was a reminder that it is often necessary to say the words on the cards in addition to reading them.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Tuesday, October 28, Game #870)
- 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
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.
