Connections

What is NYT Connections?

Connections is a free daily word game from The New York Times. Every day you get sixteen words and have to sort them into four hidden groups of four. The trick is the overlap — several words look like they belong together until a fourth group forces you to rethink. Each group has a colour by difficulty: yellow is the easiest, then green, then blue, and purple is usually the trickiest with wordplay or hidden links.

How to use today's hints

Stuck partway through? Open a single nudge for the group you're missing — often that's enough to place the words yourself. Then reveal the four category names, and only unlock the full groups when you want to confirm. Purple is where the wordplay hides, so save it for last. Nothing is grouped until you tap it, so you take exactly as much help as you need.

A quick tip

When two words seem to fit the same group, look for a fourth that only works in one of them — the odd one out usually reveals which group is real. Every past puzzle is collected in the answer archive, grouped by year.