Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s intelligent phrase sport that challenges you to group solutions in varied classes. It may be robust, so learn on when you want clues.
What must you do as soon as you’ve got completed? Why, play some extra phrase video games in fact. I’ve additionally received each day Strands hints and solutions and Quordle hints and solutions articles when you need assistance for these too, whereas Marc’s Wordle at present web page covers the unique viral phrase sport.
SPOILER WARNING: Details about NYT Connections at present is beneath, so do not learn on when you do not need to know the solutions.
NYT Connections at present (sport #560) – at present’s phrases
At the moment’s NYT Connections phrases are…
- STATS
- CROWN
- ABBOTT
- ELEMENTARY
- NUN
- KEY
- DOME
- ABBA
- LAUREL
- MONK
- COCONUT
- FRY
- SKULL
- BONES
- KAYAK
- KOJAK
NYT Connections at present (sport #560) – trace #1 – group hints
What are some clues for at present’s NYT Connections teams?
- YELLOW: Bodypart lingo
- GREEN: Backwards and forwards
- BLUE: Watching the detectives
- PURPLE: The opposite half
Want extra clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, however learn on if you wish to know what the 4 theme solutions are for at present’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections at present (sport #560) – trace #2 – group solutions
What are the solutions for at present’s NYT Connections teams?
- YELLOW: SLANG FOR HEAD
- GREEN: PALINDROMES
- BLUE: POLICE PROCEDURALS
- PURPLE: FIRST IN A COMEDY DUO
Proper, the solutions are beneath, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections at present (sport #560) – the solutions
The solutions to at present’s Connections, sport #560, are…
- YELLOW: SLANG FOR HEAD COCONUT, CROWN, DOME, SKULL
- GREEN: PALINDROMES ABBA, KAYAK, NUN, STATS
- BLUE: POLICE PROCEDURALS BONES, ELEMENTARY, KOJAK, MONK
- PURPLE: FIRST IN A COMEDY DUO ABBOTT, FRY, KEY, LAUREL
- My ranking: Average
- My rating: 1 mistake
Had at present’s Connections included the phrases Noggin, Nut, Helmet, or Bonce then I may not have struggled to see SLANG FOR HEAD so badly. As an alternative, it was PALINDROMES that hit me first – though that was primarily as a result of I couldn’t see how Swedish pop legends ABBA might join with anything, until there was an obscure Seventies Eurovision act referred to as KOJAK, which is completely potential.
Based on Wikipedia the longest palindrome in common use is the 19-letter Finnish phrase saippuakivikauppias (soapstone vendor).
Wikipedia additionally directs us to some palindrome phrases together with “A person, a plan, a canal, Panama” to which I’m certain you might add “a KAJAK” (or a saippuakivikauppias), and the everlasting query “Do geese see god?”
Yesterday’s NYT Connections solutions (Saturday, 21 December, sport #559)
- YELLOW: LOOP BAND, CIRCLE, HOOP, RING
- GREEN: COOKING VESSELS CASSEROLE, CROCK, PAN, POT
- BLUE: KINDS OF BEDS BUNK, CANOPY, MURPHY, SLEIGH
- PURPLE: THINGS CALLED “OSCAR” BALONEY, GROUCH, O, STATUETTE
What’s NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one in all a number of more and more standard phrase video games made by the New York Instances. It challenges you to seek out teams of 4 objects that share one thing in frequent, and every group has a special problem degree: inexperienced is straightforward, yellow a bit more durable, blue typically fairly robust and purple often very troublesome.
On the plus aspect, you do not technically want to resolve the ultimate one, as you’ll reply that one by a strategy of elimination. What’s extra, you may make as much as 4 errors, which supplies you a bit little bit of respiration room.
It is a bit extra concerned than one thing like Wordle, nonetheless, and there are many alternatives for the sport to journey you up with methods. As an illustration, be careful for homophones and different phrase video games that might disguise the solutions.
It is playable without cost through the NYT Video games website on desktop or cellular.
