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 Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, December 12 (game #915).
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 #916) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- HERCULE
- POIROT
- AJA
- GAUCHO
- PALAZZO
- PIAZZA
- ARE
- APOSTLE
- STRAWBERRY
- DEPOT
- CULOTTE
- GOODEN
- HER
- SEAVER
- MORTGAGE
- HAREM
NYT Connections today (game #916) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Big trousers
- GREEN: A sound is missing
- BLUE: Local MLB stars
- PURPLE: A letter is missing
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 #916) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: WIDE-LEGGED PANT STYLES
- GREEN: SILENT "T"
- BLUE: NEW YORK METS LEGENDS
- PURPLE: GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES MINUS A LETTER
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #916) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #916, are…
- YELLOW: WIDE-LEGGED PANT STYLES CULOTTE, GAUCHO, HAREM, PALAZZO
- GREEN: SILENT "T" APOSTLE, DEPOT, MORTGAGE, POIROT
- BLUE: NEW YORK METS LEGENDS GOODEN, PIAZZA, SEAVER, STRAWBERRY
- PURPLE: GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES MINUS A LETTER AJA, ARE, HER, HERCULE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
My game today was a Connections miracle and the result of sheer guesswork and random luck rather than any knowledge, which is why I’m classifying it as hard.
Clueless about any groups and resisting the temptation to join HERCULE and POIROT I linked CULOTTE, PIAZZA, GAUCHO and PALAZZO because I thought they might all be words for meeting place or town square. But when i got one away I saw the link and swapped out PIAZZA for HAREM; that said, PIZZA pants sounds like it should be a thing too.
I arrived at SILENT “T” by sounding out the remaining 12 tiles, but the GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES MINUS A LETTER was only solved because of the similarity of AJA, ARE, and HER. I only added HERCULE because it began with the same letters as another one of the tiles. They all count!
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, December 12, game #915)
- YELLOW: CONTAIN HOLD, HOUSE, KEEP, STORE
- GREEN: MOVE IN THE WIND BLOW, FLAP, SWAY, WAVE
- BLUE: VEGETABLE UNITS BULB, EAR, HEAD, SPEAR
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT ARE DIVIDED INTO TWELVE SEGMENTS CLOCK, FOOT, YEAR, ZODIAC
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.
