NYT Connections: Tips and tricks to master the tricky daily puzzle

The New York Times “Connections” game is one of the most challenging of the many daily puzzles available online.

It is the second most played game after Wordle and has attracted a lot of interest since its release on June 12, 2023.

But it doesn’t have to be that difficult. If you’re a first-time player or just need a refresher, here’s how to play Connections with tips on how to win the game and today’s answers.

In the word game “Connections,” players must identify themes in words. Starting from 16 words, players must identify groups of four objects that share a common characteristic.

Each group is given a color (either purple, blue, green or yellow), with purple being the most difficult and yellow being the easiest.

For terms that can be classified into more than one category, each problem has a single solution and is designed as a challenge. Editors use the Oxford Dictionary to curate words and categories.

The Connections game is renewed daily at midnight.

At the moment, Connections is free to play on all platforms, so you don’t need to register or log in.

It’s a tricky word game compared to other games like Wordle, but luckily The New York Times has put together a list of strategies you can use to succeed.

If you pay attention, there are plenty of clues in the game itself.

The site also has a Connections Companion where you can find clues for the puzzle of the day and share your score with the Connector community in the comments.

If you are completely stumped, it is advisable to guess. The game gives you the hint “One gone!” if you are missing a term in a certain category. Keep these guesses in mind to determine which term doesn’t fit with the others.

Complicated rhymes, homophones, anagrams, palindromes, unmarked cloze sentences, and entire wildcards are all found in the most difficult category, purple.

Morgan Payne, who often solves Connections for her TikTok fans, explained, “I’m going to try to look at patterns of what Connections has done in the past.”

Word and letter patterns, pop culture references (e.g. music and movie titles), and fill-in-the-blank phrases are some of the predominant categories Payne recognizes from previous experiences.

Puzzle creator Wyna Liu recommends paying attention to overlap and “eliminating options and clearing the board as much as possible.”

The boards are assembled by Liu and then tested and edited by Senior Puzzle Editor Joel Fagliano. According to Fagliano, he begins every solution by looking for phrases that have only one definition. While a word like “train” can mean many different things, “metaverse” can only mean one thing.

Reddit is also another good source to look for hints and tips.

In fact, one user shared his entire strategy with the internet. The most obvious category is most likely a trap, according to the Reddit user and that “it is important to pay attention to both the structure of the word and the meaning.” The linguistic categories are usually not easy to recognize.

“If you get stuck, take a word and make sentences out of it. Try to think of as many contexts as possible that it can fit into. For example, “pine tree” could fit spontaneously under categories like “trees,” “people named “Chris,” “words that mean having a crush on someone,” or “words that end in -apple.”

“Use the four allowed mistakes to your advantage. Finding out that three words definitely belong to a category is more helpful than not knowing at all. If the shuffle button doesn’t help, I recommend you come back to it a few hours later. I usually give myself 10 minutes and if I don’t get it done, I come back to it later and in half the time I can solve it.”

Connections answers for October 24th

Yellow group: statement (invoice, program, schedule, list)
Green Group: NYT Offerings (Audio, Cooking, Games, News)
Blue group: Things made by folding paper (plane, crane, fan, fortune teller)
Purple Group: French Words (Adieu, Belle, Pain, Temps)

topicnews · October 24, 2024

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