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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears every day at midnight for your time zone – which means some people are still playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s.” If you’re looking for Tuesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections Tips and Answers for Tuesday, October 28 (Thu #870).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the clever word game from the New York Times that challenges you to group answers into different categories. This can be difficult, so read on if you need tips on connections.
SPOILER WARNING: The information on NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #871) – words of the day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- OUIJA BOARD
- SPINE
- PLATFORM
- SESSION
- SCRABBLE
- AVERAGE
- SACRUM
- SPIRIT
- EXIT
- SEITAN
- ABECEDARY
- HEART
- COMPUTER KEYBOARD
- COURAGE
- PLACE
- SEYCHELLES
NYT Connections today (game #871) – clue #1 – group clues
What are the clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Grainy qualities
- GREEN: A scene of expression
- BLUE: A sound in common
- PURPLE: Alphabetical order
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections today (game #871) – clue #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FORTITUDE
- GREEN CIRCUIT
- BLUE: WORDS BEGINING WITH THE SOUND “SAY”
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH LETTERS A TO Z
That’s right, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #871) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #871 are…
- YELLOW: FORTITUDE Spine, courage, heart, mind
- GREEN CIRCUIT MEDIUM, OUTLET, PLATFORM, LOCATION
- BLUE: WORDS BEGINING WITH THE SOUND “SAY” SACRUM, SEITAN, SEYCHELLES, SESSION
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH LETTERS A TO Z ABECEDARIUM, COMPUTER KEYBOARD, OUIJA BOARD, SCRABBLE
- My rating: Hard
- My rating: 1 error
Before choosing the yellow/easiest group and beating myself up for not seeing it sooner, I made a mistake that I hope I wasn’t alone in – linking SÉANCE, SPIRIT, OUIJA BOARD, and MEDIUM, thinking it was a group about contacting the dead.
Luckily, triumph followed as I then got the purple/hardest quartet, after thinking that the letters connected SCRABBLE and COMPUTER KEYBOARD.
I didn’t know what ABECEDARIUM was (an inscription made up of the letters of an alphabet, almost always arranged in order) but it sounded right and I knew, thanks to its appearances in horror films and ghost stories, that a OUIJA BOARD was made up of letters and the words YES and NO.
The blue group reminded us that we often had to say the words on the tiles and read them.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Tuesday October 28, match #870)
- YELLOW: BANALITY CHESTNUT, CLICHÉ, PLATITUDE, TROPE
- GREEN: THINGS TO KNOW CONSCIOUS, CONNECTED, AWARE, WISE
- BLUE: REMOTE CONTROL BUTTONS BACK, HOME, MENU, SELECT
- VIOLET: SINGLE SINGER PLUS STARTING LETTER GUSHER, KENYA, OCRE, BASIN
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow is a little more difficult, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the final question, as you will be able to answer it through a process of elimination. Additionally, you can make up to four mistakes, giving you some breathing room.
However, it’s a bit more complex than something like Wordle, and the game provides plenty of opportunities to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that could obscure the answers.
It is playable for free via the NYT Games website on computer or mobile.
