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 #833) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- ALE
- TAP
- VEG
- TABLE
- BAR
- LOUNGE
- QUASH
- PINCH
- HIVE
- COUNTER
- SCROLL
- EEK
- SWIPE
- LOAF
- BOOTH
- CHILL
NYT Connections today (game #833) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Smart phone operation
- GREEN: Laid back
- BLUE: Where to sit at a diner
- PURPLE: Healthy food with one thing missing
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 #833) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TOUCHSCREEN GESTURES
- GREEN: RELAX
- BLUE: RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS
- PURPLE: VEGETABLES WITH FIRST LETTER REMOVED
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #833) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #833, are…
- YELLOW: TOUCHSCREEN GESTURES PINCH, SCROLL, SWIPE, TAP
- GREEN: RELAX CHILL, LOAF, LOUNGE, VEG
- BLUE: RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS BAR, BOOTH, COUNTER, TABLE
- PURPLE: VEGETABLES WITH FIRST LETTER REMOVED ALE, EEK, HIVE, QUASH
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
My food obsession helped me get RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS today, but it didn’t extend to VEGETABLES WITH FIRST LETTER REMOVED. That probably say a lot about my current carb-heavy diet – not that I can see eating more chives (HIVE in this game) would change much.
TOUCHSCREEN GESTURES was also an easy get today, although it is funny to think about how commonplace this interaction with our devices has become.
Anyone who has seen the movie BlackBerry (about the once dominant pre-iPhone brand) will know that buttons (and buttons that make a sound) were seen as essential before we started touching our screens.
Ending a particularly easy round without any surprises was RELAX, which contained a clue for the purple group and some instruction on some agreeable ways to spend your Sunday.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, September 20, game #832)
- YELLOW: CAR BRANDS DODGE, FORD, LINCOLN, RAM
- GREEN: BIT OF SPORTS BAR FARE CHIP, DIP, FRY, WING
- BLUE: N.H.L. TEAM MEMBER DUCK, FLYER, SENATOR, STAR
- PURPLE: SKY___ DIVE, LARK, ROCKET, SCRAPER
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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