Hints and answers for yesterday's Connections
Yesterday’s Connections Cheat – Unlimited guesses
Use as many guesses as you need until you solve yesterday’s Connections. Unlike the New York Times, you never run out of lives. Then you can play your answers on the NYT website.
Missed yesterday’s NYT Connections? This page has everything: gentle hints to give you one last shot, the four category titles if you want a bigger nudge, and the full answers when you’re ready to see them. Scroll at your own pace and nothing is revealed until you choose to look.
How the Puzzle Works
Connections presents sixteen words in a four-by-four grid. Your job is to find four groups of four words that share a common theme. Each group is colour-coded by difficulty.
Yellow is the most straightforward, Green and Blue sit in the middle, and Purple is the hardest (usually involving wordplay, misdirection, or a lateral connection most players don’t spot until it’s explained to them.)
You can make up to four mistakes before the puzzle ends, and the final group can always be solved by elimination if you’ve correctly placed the other three.
How to Use Yesterday’s Hints
One tip before you scroll: the group that looks most obvious is sometimes a trap. The Connections editors occasionally plant a set of words that seem to belong together but actually belong to four different categories. If a group feels too easy, pause before committing, especially if any of those words could plausibly fit somewhere else.