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 #576) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- A FEW
- LOVE
- BARBERSHOP
- ESSAYS
- A ROSE
- CERTAIN
- ENOUGH
- A LIFE
- A DEAL
- PART ONE
- VARIOUS
- A CAPPELLA
- A NOVEL
- DOO-WOP
- SOME
- MADRIGAL
NYT Connections today (game #576) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Singing groups
- GREEN: A small amount
- BLUE: Biography sub-headings
- PURPLE: It really is
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 #576) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: VOCAL MUSIC
- GREEN: A HANDFUL OF
- BLUE: BOOK SUBTITLES
- PURPLE: _ IS _ (IS _)
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #576) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #576, are…
- YELLOW: VOCAL MUSIC A CAPPELLA, BARBERSHOP, DOO-WOP, MADRIGAL
- GREEN: A HANDFUL OF A FEW, CERTAIN, SOME, VARIOUS
- BLUE: BOOK SUBTITLES A LIFE, A NOVEL, ESSAYS, PART ONE
- PURPLE: _ IS _ (IS _) A DEAL, A ROSE, ENOUGH, LOVE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
I found today’s Connections utterly baffling and only completed it by chance – and even then it took me a while to fully understand what the Purple group was all about. I think seeing A LIFE, A NOVEL, A FEW, A DEAL and A ROSE in the starting grid discombobulated my brain and I struggled to recover and think logically.
Having said that, I did get VOCAL MUSIC pretty quickly, but the rest was random guesswork – despite the fact that I was singing along to No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) by Barbara Streisand and Donna Summer on New Year’s Eve. A roller disco classic if ever there was one.
My head hurts.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, 6 January, game #575)
- YELLOW: BREATHE HARD GASP, HEAVE, PANT, PUFF
- GREEN: CATCHALL BLANKET, BROAD, GENERAL, UMBRELLA
- BLUE: METAPHORS FOR EASY THINGS ABC, BREEZE, PICNIC, PIE
- PURPLE: SYNONYMS FOR REAR END MINUS LAST LETTER ARS, BOOT, BUT, RUM
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.
