NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, December 28 (game #931)
SOURCE:TechRadar|BY: Johnny Dee
Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.
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Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
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 #931) - today's words
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Today's NYT Connections words are…
DUSKY
SPRING
STILL
PERRIER
BOX
STATIONARY
GEAR
ENVELOPE
NOODLE
RATCHET
TUBE
STATIC
PAWL
CONSTANT
SOXER
MAILER
NYT Connections today (game #931) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: In the post
GREEN: Hold it
BLUE: Analog engineering
PURPLE: Altered canines
Need more clues?
We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…
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NYT Connections today (game #931) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: CONTAINERS FOR SHIPPING
GREEN: UNMOVING
BLUE: MECHANICAL WATCH PARTS
PURPLE: DOGS WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #931) - the answers
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The answers to today's Connections, game #931, are…
YELLOW: CONTAINERS FOR SHIPPING BOX, ENVELOPE, MAILER, TUBE
GREEN: UNMOVING CONSTANT, STATIC, STATIONARY, STILL
BLUE: MECHANICAL WATCH PARTS GEAR, PAWL, RATCHET, SPRING
PURPLE: DOGS WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED DUSKY, NOODLE, PERRIER, SOXER
My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect
The first task today was ignoring the very obvious collection of water types – SPRING, STILL, and PERRIER – positioned temptingly along the first row of tiles.
Fortunately I managed to resist and saw instead that STILL had some partners in STATIC, STATIONARY and CONSTANT.
After getting the green group and with PERRIER still in play, I deduced that it must be something to do with the word rather than what it represented – but it was sounding out NOODLE and DUSKY that helped me find all of the DOGS WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED; Terrier was the breed hiding in the guise of the gassy French water.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, December 27, game #930)
PURPLE: ENDING WITH ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DECIDER, NAMESAKE, REPORT, VILLAGER
What is 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 items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the iPhone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna's addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.
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