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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 Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, February 14 (game #614).
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 #615) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- POPULAR
- EMOTIONAL
- CHEESE
- DISH
- PAN
- RETURN
- SPILL
- CUP
- TELL
- COMMAND
- ALTERNATIVE
- OPTION
- SHORT
- PROGRESSIVE
- CONTROL
- BLAB
NYT Connections today (game #615) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Gossip
- GREEN: MacBook keys
- BLUE: Types of music
- PURPLE: Add a word that rhymes with “bake”
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 #615) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DIVULGE
- GREEN: WORDS ON A MAC KEYBOARD
- BLUE: WORDS SHORTENED IN ROCK GENRES
- PURPLE: __CAKE
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #615) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #615, are…
- YELLOW: DIVULGE BLAB, DISH, SPILL, TELL
- GREEN: WORDS ON A MAC KEYBOARD COMMAND, CONTROL, OPTION, RETURN
- BLUE: WORDS SHORTENED IN ROCK GENRES ALTERNATIVE, EMOTIONAL, POPULAR, PROGRESSIVE
- PURPLE: __CAKE CHEESE, CUP, PAN, SHORT
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I wonder if I found today’s puzzle so easy because I am a) a former music journalist (WORDS SHORTENED IN ROCK GENRES), b) addicted to CHEESECAKE, c) a lifelong Mac user (WORDS ON A MAC KEYBOARD), and d) used to write a gossip column for a pop magazine (DIVULGE).
My gossip column got me into lots of trouble back in the day. Mainly because I used to make everything up. I didn’t like going out or schmoozing (both of which are fairly essential to the gossip trade) and at this point there was no social media to steal from, so I would just use my imagination.
My theory was that if I made the gossip very tame – Madonna spotted buying peanut butter, Elton John likes to wash his underwear on a Tuesday, etc – then no one would complain. Sadly they did, a lot, not because my gossip was untrue but because it made them seem too boring.
Alas, my career giving the DISH on celebrity eating habits ended before it really began.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, 14 February, game #614)
- YELLOW: MOLLYCODDLE BABY, HUMOR, INDULGE, PAMPER
- GREEN: THINGS A RATTLESNAKE DOES HISS, RATTLE, SHED, SLITHER
- BLUE: WORDS SAID TO AN UNSUSPECTING PERSON BOO, GOTCHA, GUESS WHO, SURPRISE
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF BODIES OF WATER BAE, CREAK, SEE, STRAIGHT
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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