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.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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NYT Connections today (game #1047) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- MOTHER
- MY
- NEIGHBOR
- TOTORO
- TOUCH
- WHAMMY
- SKIRT
- SCIENCE
- PULP
- EDUCATED
- LITERARY
- ASIAGO
- DEVOTE
- VERY
- HISTORICAL
- FLANK
NYT Connections today (game #1047) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Close to the edge
- GREEN: Types of narrative story
- BLUE: Science memory learning phrase
- PURPLE: Words that begin with retro pop groups
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 #1047) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: BORDER
- GREEN: KINDS OF FICTION
- BLUE: WORDS IN A PLANETARY MNEMONIC
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH FOUR-LETTER ’80S BANDS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #1047) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1047, are…
- YELLOW: BORDER FLANK, NEIGHBOR, SKIRT, TOUCH
- GREEN: KINDS OF FICTION HISTORICAL, LITERARY, PULP, SCIENCE
- BLUE: WORDS IN A PLANETARY MNEMONIC EDUCATED, MOTHER, MY, VERY
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH FOUR-LETTER ’80S BANDS ASIAGO, DEVOTE, TOTORO, WHAMMY
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
I think this is my favorite ever “purple first”.
Partially it’s because I managed to avoid thinking that the Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro was anything other than a in-joke, secondly because I managed to avoid including PULP and thirdly because I saw the link between Toto, Devo and Wham in the first place.
ASIAGO was an educated guess, but let’s just say Asia were not in the same league as the other STARTING WITH FOUR-LETTER ’80S BANDS.
I was also pretty pleased to get quite tricky yellow and green groups, a good thing as the mnemonic My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles was not a thing at my school (but then neither was education). I now know that it’s a way to remember the order of the planets from the sun.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, April 21, game #1045)
- YELLOW: POTTERY EQUIPMENT CLAY, GLAZE, KILN, WHEEL
- GREEN: WALLOP DECK, PUNCH, SLUG, SOCK
- BLUE: WORDS PRONOUNCED DIFFERENT WAYS AS PROPER NOUNS HERB, NICE, POLISH, READING
- PURPLE: PICK-UP ____ ARTIST, GAME, STICKS, TRUCK
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.
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