NYT Connections today my hints and answers for Sunday, January 12 (game #581)
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Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:02:00 +0000
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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 clues.
What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers 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 (game #581) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)
Today's NYT Connections words are COMETS INVENTION COIN TOSS DEFENDER COURT ASTEROIDS FAIRY TALE DRESS COAT FICTION ROMANCE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG CENTIPEDE CHARM FANTASY BREAKOUT PURSUE NYT Connections today (game #581) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: All made up GREEN: Dating BLUE: Video classics PURPLE: Flipside
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 NYT
Connections today (game #581) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: FABRICATION GREEN: WOO BLUE: CLASSIC ATARI GAMES PURPLE: THINGS FEATURING TAILS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #581) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today's Connections, game #581, are YELLOW: FABRICATION FAIRY TALE, FANTASY, FICTION, INVENTION GREEN: WOO CHARM, COURT, PURSUE, ROMANCE BLUE: CLASSIC ATARI GAMES ASTEROIDS, BREAKOUT, CENTIPEDE, DEFENDER PURPLE: THINGS FEATURING TAILS COIN TOSS, COMETS, DRESS COAT, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG My rating: Hard My score: Fail
I started todays Connections completely baffled and unable to see any links
at all before writing every word down and noticing after a brief thought
that we were looking for book genres the words that made up FABRICATION and WOO.
Blue and Purple defeated me. Games are a blindspot for me. If I enjoy a game
I get locked into it for years Tetris , Sim City , Balatro playing absolutely nothing else until a new game takes over, or as was the case with
a dinner party game called RSVP I played every day on my phone, accidentally delete and then find out it is no no longer available. I realize this is a
bit odd and its left me completely ignorant of everything else. But even if I was aware of the video game canon of the late 20th century I would have definitely included SONIC THE HEDGEHOG as an Atari game (its Sega), instead
of the THINGS FEATURING TAILS category.
After Googling does Sonic The Hedgehog have a tail? (Im not the first to do this) I eventually discovered that Tails is the name of a character within
the Sonic The Hedgehog universe and yes Sonic does have a tail. Every days a school day. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 11 January, game #580) YELLOW: DISPLAY OF ROWS AND COLUMNS ARRAY, GRID, MATRIX, TABLE GREEN: THINGS TO DO AT A WORK EVENT CIRCULATE, CONVERSE, MINGLE, NETWORK BLUE: OLYMPIC EVENTS SINCE 2000 BREAKING, SURFING, TAEKWONDO, TRAMPOLINE PURPLE: -_COURT FOOD, KANGAROO, SUPREME, TENNIS 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.
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-12-januar y-2025
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