NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, January 16 (game #950)

Date:
Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +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.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each
day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, January 15 (game #949) .

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.

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 #950) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are PANAMA ALABAMA BATH SANTANA BANANARAMA
SLAM PAJAMAS PIANO PORKPIE BRUSHING KANSAS DERBY STORY CANYON FEDORA NYT Connections today (game #950) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Types of headgear GREEN: Putting a child to bed BLUE: Chart groups PURPLE: Begin with
a big posh word

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 #950) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: KINDS OF
HATS GREEN: COMPONENTS OF A KID'S BEDTIME ROUTINE BLUE: MUSICAL ACTS WITH "A" AS THE ONLY VOWEL PURPLE: GRAND ____

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #950) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #950, are YELLOW: KINDS OF HATS DERBY, FEDORA, PANAMA, PORKPIE GREEN: COMPONENTS OF A KID'S BEDTIME ROUTINE BATH, BRUSHING, PAJAMAS, STORY BLUE: MUSICAL ACTS WITH "A" AS THE ONLY VOWEL ALABAMA, BANANARAMA, KANSAS, SANTANA PURPLE: GRAND ____ BAHAMA, CANYON,
PIANO, SLAM My rating: Hard My score: Perfect

KINDS OF HATS is a recurring category and one that was easy to spot, but the rest of todays game took some unpicking.

I would have completed this game a lot more quickly if there was a tile for ABBA instead of ALABAMA but in the end I was able to make an uneducated
guess amid all of the A-M-A words.

Seeing the link between CANYON and PIANO helped me get the purple/hardest group, taking a guess that Grand Bahama was an island. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, January 15, game #949) YELLOW: GARDENING TOOLS HOSE, RAKE, SHOVEL, SPADE GREEN: UNMOVING FROZEN, STATIC, STATIONARY, STILL BLUE: THINGS THAT COME IN FLAKES CEREAL, DANDRUFF, SALT, SNOW PURPLE: WORDS FORMED BY TWO MEN'S NAMES JACKAL, LEVITATE, MELTED, PATRON 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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