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 #842) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- WOOD
- THEREFORE
- WOODY
- GUTHRIE
- WOODSTOCK
- CLASSICS
- CHUCK
- STIFF
- COULD
- WOODEN
- CREATE
- FOGHORN
- AWKWARD
- WOODCHUCK
- SCROOGE
- STILTED
NYT Connections today (game #842) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Cumbersome behavior
- GREEN: Get your chops round this wordplay
- BLUE: Feathered characters
- PURPLE: Sounds like a numeral
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 #842) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: UNNATURAL, AS MANNERISMS
- GREEN: WORDS IN A FAMOUS TONGUE TWISTER
- BLUE: CARTOON BIRDS
- PURPLE: ENDING WITH NUMBER HOMOPHONES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #842) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #842, are…
- YELLOW: UNNATURAL, AS MANNERISMS AWKWARD, STIFF, STILTED, WOODEN
- GREEN: WORDS IN A FAMOUS TONGUE TWISTER CHUCK, COULD, WOOD, WOODCHUCK
- BLUE: CARTOON BIRDS FOGHORN, SCROOGE, WOODSTOCK, WOODY
- PURPLE: ENDING WITH NUMBER HOMOPHONES CLASSICS, CREATE, GUTHRIE, THEREFORE
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
We had something of a wood special today. All that was missing was the actor Edward Woodward, the word “would” and the golfer Tiger Woods.
Although I appreciate the nod to folk legend WOODY GUTHRIE, I managed to successfully avoid the numerous traps, although I did suspect that WOOD, COULD, WOOD and WOODCHUCK was some kind of trick rather than the four WORDS IN A FAMOUS TONGUE TWISTER.
This is the third one of these I can remember featuring in Connections over the years – most recently we had “rubber baby buggy bumper”. At least I was familiar with this one.
I’m disappointed that I missed ENDING WITH NUMBER HOMOPHONES, but couldn’t resist putting CARTOON BIRDS together.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, September 29, game #841)
- YELLOW: KINDS OF UNDERWEAR BOXER, BRIEF, HIPSTER, THONG
- GREEN: PLAY A JOKE ON FOOL, PRANK, PUNK, TRICK
- BLUE: PARTS OF A TOILET TANK CHAIN, FLAPPER, FLOAT, HANDLE
- PURPLE: FIRST WORDS IN ’70S ROCK SONG TITLES BABA, BOHEMIAN, HOTEL, STAIRWAY
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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