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 #588) – today’s words
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Today’s NYT Connections words are…
SUNPOOLACTIONAQUARIUMCLAIMGEOMETRYBLUFFSUITСАРЕPURSETAMPA BAYKITTYPLAINCASEPOTBASIN
NYT Connections today (game #588) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: Finances in one placeGREEN: You’ve been servedBLUE: LandscapePURPLE: Everybody loves these
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 #588) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: FUND GREEN: COURT FILING BLUE: LANDFORMS PURPLE: THEY HAVE RAYS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #588) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Connections, game #588, are…
YELLOW: FUND KITTY, POOL, POT, PURSEGREEN: COURT FILING ACTION, CASE, CLAIM, SUITBLUE: LANDFORMS BASIN, BLUFF, CAPE, PLAINPURPLE: THEY HAVE RAYS AQUARIUM, GEOMETRY, SUN, TAMPA BAY
My rating: EasyMy score: Perfect
For the first time in ages I got today’s groups in order of difficulty. Although when I say “got”, none of us get the last group, do we? That happens by default after we switch off the brain and just click on the remaining four words – occasionally kidding ourselves with an “of course!” as if really we knew what the connection was before we clicked on submit.
Today’s Purple group was a great one – linking four different types of RAYS. Not that all AQUARIUMs have RAYS. A fact I know from my many vacations ruined by European weather, where a rainy day would mean a trip to the local indoor attractions, which usually meant queuing up to look at some crabs in a bucket. Happy days.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 18 January, game #587)
YELLOW: DESIRE DRIVE, IMPULSE, ITCH, URGEGREEN: BARB SPINE, SPUR, STICKER, THORNBLUE: INFO ON A RECORD ALBUM, ARTIST, LABEL, TRACKPURPLE: TURN THE ___ CORNER, PAGE, TABLES, TIDE
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.