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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 Tuesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, October 28 (game #870).
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.
NYT Connections today (game #871) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- OUIJA BOARD
- BACKBONE
- PLATFORM
- SÉANCE
- SCRABBLE
- MEDIUM
- SACRUM
- SPIRIT
- OUTLET
- SEITAN
- ABECEDARIUM
- HEART
- COMPUTER KEYBOARD
- COURAGE
- VENUE
- SEYCHELLES
NYT Connections today (game #871) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Gritty qualities
- GREEN: A stage for expression
- BLUE: A sound in common
- PURPLE: Alphabetical order
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 #871) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FORTITUDE
- GREEN: CHANNEL
- BLUE: WORDS STARTING WITH THE “SAY” SOUND
- PURPLE: THINGS FEATURING LETTERS A THROUGH Z
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #871) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #871, are…
- YELLOW: FORTITUDE BACKBONE, COURAGE, HEART, SPIRIT
- GREEN: CHANNEL MEDIUM, OUTLET, PLATFORM, VENUE
- BLUE: WORDS STARTING WITH THE “SAY” SOUND SACRUM, SEITAN, SEYCHELLES, SÉANCE
- PURPLE: THINGS FEATURING LETTERS A THROUGH Z ABECEDARIUM, COMPUTER KEYBOARD, OUIJA BOARD, SCRABBLE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
Before getting the yellow/easiest group and kicking myself for not seeing it sooner I made an error that hopefully I was not alone in – linking SÉANCE, SPIRIT, OUIJA BOARD and MEDIUM, thinking it was a group about contact with the dead.
Fortunately, triumph followed as I got the purple/hardest quartet next, after thinking that letters connected SCRABBLE and COMPUTER KEYBOARD.
I didn’t know what ABECEDARIUM was (an inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order) but it sounded right and I knew from its appearances in horror movies and ghost stories that a OUIJA BOARD was made up of letters and the words YES and NO.
The blue group was a reminder that often you need to say the words on the tiles as well as read them.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, October 28, game #870)
- YELLOW: BANALITY CHESTNUT, CLICHÉ, PLATITUDE, TROPE
- GREEN: IN THE KNOW AWARE, HIP, SAVVY, WISE
- BLUE: REMOTE CONTROL BUTTONS BACK, HOME, MENU, SELECT
- PURPLE: ONE-NAMED SINGER PLUS STARTING LETTER GUSHER, KENYA, OCHER, PELVIS
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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