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? 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 #576): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- SOME
- LOVE
- HAIR SALON
- ESSAYS
- A ROSE
- TRUE
- ENOUGH
- A LIFE
- AN OFFER
- FIRST PART
- SEVERAL
- A CAPELLA
- A NOVEL
- DOO-WOP
- SOME
- MADRIGAL
NYT Connections Today (Game #576) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: singing groups
- GREEN: a small amount
- BLUE: Biography subtitles
- PURPLE: it really is
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 #576) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: VOCAL MUSIC
- GREEN: A HANDFUL OF
- BLUE: BOOK SUBTITLES
- PURPLE: _ES_ (ES_)
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #576): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #576 are…
- YELLOW: VOCAL MUSIC A CAPELLA, BARBERSHOP, DOO-WOP, MADRIGAL
- GREEN: A HANDFUL OF SOME, CERTAIN, SOME, SEVERAL
- BLUE: BOOK SUBTITLES A LIFE, A NOVEL, ESSAYS, FIRST PART
- PURPLE: _ES_ (ES_) ONE DEAL, ONE ROSE, ENOUGH, LOVE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
I found Today’s Connections completely baffling and only completed it by chance, and even then it took me a while to fully understand what the Purple group was about. I think seeing A LIFE, A NOVEL, A FEW, AN OFFER and A ROSE on the starting grid disconcerted me and it took me a while to recover and think logically.
That being said, I understood VOCAL MUSIC pretty quickly, but the rest was random guesses, even though I was singing along with No more tears (enough is enough) by Barbara Streisand and Donna Summer on New Year’s Eve. A roller disco classic if there ever was one.
My head hurts.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Monday, January 6, game #575)
- YELLOW: BREATHE HARD Gasp, gasp, gasp, puff
- GREEN: CATCHALL BLANKET, WIDE, GENERAL, UMBRELLA
- BLUE: METAPHORS FOR EASY THINGS ABC, BREEZE, PICNIC, FOOT
- PURPLE: SYNONYMS OF REAR END LESS LAST LETTER ARS, BOTA, BUT, RON
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.
