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 clues.
What should you do once you’re done? Why, play more word games, of course. I also have daily thread clues and answers and quordle hints and answer articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle Today 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 (Set #594) – Today’s Words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- GINKGO
- EARRING
- Emoji
- ANGLE
- NICK
- TYCOON
- RECREATION
- TYCOON
- INTRODUCE
- LUNCH
- SHEATH
- Karaoke
- CLASS
- CYCLE
- RAISE
- Classroom
NYT Connections Today (Game #594) – Tip #1 – Group Tips
What are some clues for today’s NYT hookup groups?
- YELLOW: Calendar
- GREEN: As seen on Powder Mountain
- BLUE: Heard in Tokyo
- PURPLE: You should try harder
Do you need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four topic answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #594) – Tip #2 – Group Responses
What are the answers for today’s NYT hookup groups?
- Yellow: school periods
- Green: Characteristics of a ski resort
- Blue: Words derived from Japanese
- Purple: Words after the prefix “tri-“
Right, the answers are below, so don’t scroll any further if you don’t want to see them.
NYT Connections Today (Game #594) – The Answers
The answers to today’s connections, Game #594, are…
- Yellow: school periods Class, classroom, lunch, recess
- Green: Characteristics of a ski resort uprising, lodge, tycoon, slope
- Blue: Words derived from Japanese Emoji, ginkgo, karaoke, tycoon
- Purple: Words after the prefix “tri-“ Angle, cycle, dent, sheath
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
Seeing Ginkgo, I immediately thought that a group had to be about Japan. At my first guess I left out karaoke and included Mogul instead, I thought it was a gimmick as there was a recent news story about a town in England called Stockport, which claims to be the birthplace of Karaoke, instead from Japan. But I was wrong. Obviously
Legend has it that a merchant named Roy Brooke invented karaoke, basically singing the hits of the day, in the early 1990s, but it was stolen by some visitors from Japan, who marketed it around the world.
Karaoke is still massive in Stockport, where 12 pub teams compete against each other every Monday to be crowned Stockport Karaoke Champions. And that part, at least, is a true story!
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Friday, January 24, Game #593)
- Yellow: contemplate Breeding, muse, reflect, reflect
- Green: rude things to do Interrupt, trash, point, look
- Blue: Vocation Crafts, line, commerce, work
- Purple: -_patch Cabbage, nicotine, rough, soul
What are NYT connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made 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 a little harder, blue often quite hard, and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the ending, since you’ll be able to answer it by a process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.
However, it’s a bit more involved than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to move you around with tricks. For example, be careful with homophones and other puns that could disguise answers.
It is playable for free through the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
