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 #593) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- LITTER
- NICOTINE
- ROUGH
- TRADE
- CABBAGE
- BROOD
- LINE
- POINT
- REFLECT
- STARE
- INTERRUPT
- WORK
- CRAFT
- MUSE
- SOUL
- PONDER
NYT Connections today (game #593) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Weighing things up
- GREEN: Mean energy
- BLUE: Profession
- PURPLE: Add a word that rhymes with “catch”
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 #593) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CONTEMPLATE
- GREEN: RUDE THINGS TO DO
- BLUE: VOCATION
- PURPLE: -_PATCH
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #593) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #593, are…
- YELLOW: CONTEMPLATE BROOD, MUSE, PONDER, REFLECT
- GREEN: RUDE THINGS TO DO INTERRUPT, LITTER, POINT, STARE
- BLUE: VOCATION CRAFT, LINE, TRADE, WORK
- PURPLE: -_PATCH CABBAGE, NICOTINE, ROUGH, SOUL
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 3 mistakes
I saw the Yellow and Purple groups very quickly today, but really struggled with two theoretically easy connections – RUDE THINGS TO DO and VOCATION.
There must be a technique where, after you make one guess and get the “one away…” alert, you then solve it on the next – but I’m uncertain of what it is. I guess it helps if you have three answers locked in and are just looking for the fourth, but too often I’m not entirely sure of which ones are right and which wrong. I spend far too long randomly trying things than stopping to think logically.
Still, I got there in the end today, solving the Green group on the last chance and not needing to worry about Blue.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 23 January, game #592)
- GREEN: RESULTS OF SOME DIGGING DITCH, HOLE, PIT, TRENCH
- YELLOW: TYPES OF ACADEMIC COURSES DISCUSSION, LAB, LECTURE, SEMINAR
- BLUE: ONES WEARING ROBES BOXER, JUDGE, MONK, WIZARD
- PURPLE: ___ UP BATTER, BOTTOMS, CHIN, LAWYER
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.
