NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, January 19

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ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Saturday, January 18By Kris Holt

Hey, everyone! I hope you’re having a stellar weekend.

I gotta say, it’s remarkable just how easy it is to freshen up your living space with just a few small changes. I swapped out my shower curtain for a much nicer looking (but inexpensive) option and did the same with the shower shelves.

Getting rid of the old shelves was a complete pain, though. They were stuck to the tiles with lots of silicon adhesive, which took me forever to scrape off. It was only an hour or so into this misadventure that I decided to look up the best ways of getting rid of such gunk. While I don’t have the top recommended option of a hair dryer (I probably should, considering how long my hair is getting), I did have a product on hand that helped greatly.

So here’s a second mini recommendation for today: maybe do a little research before diving into something unfamiliar instead of just trying to wing things. Chances are high that there are some YouTubers who have already solved your problem.

Before we get going, I’ve started a discussion group for Connections and this column on Discord. You can chat about each game (and other topics) with me and other folks. I’m always interested to find out how other people approach the game, so join us! It’s fun.

It’s also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions that I mess something up.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, January 19, are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are…

• SUN
• POOL
• ACTION
• AQUARIUM
• CLAIM
• GEOMETRY
• BLUFF
• SUIT
• CAPE
• PURSE
• TAMPA BAY
• KITTY
• PLAIN
• CASE
• POT
• BASIN

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• Yellow group — total prize money
• Green group — legal eagle fodder
• Blue group —

• Purple group — “radiation” and The Kinks would fit in here

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s Connections groups are…

• Yellow group — fund
• Green group — court filing
• Blue group — landforms
• Purple group — they have rays

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are…

• Yellow group — fund (KITTY, POOL, POT, PURSE)
• Green group — court filing (ACTION, CASE, CLAIM, SUIT)
• Blue group — landforms (BASIN, BLUFF, CAPE, PLAIN)
• Purple group — they have rays (AQUARIUM, GEOMETRY, SUN, TAMPA BAY)

My fourth perfect game in a row, and now my overall streak is up to seven. Here’s how I fared:

Look at that reverse rainbow! It’s… It’s beautiful.

I got the purple group immediately thanks to TAMPA BAY (hey, give us back our baseball team! Love, Montreal.) (I’m not a baseball guy, but having the Expos back would be good for the city, I think!). As far as my hint goes, the lead singer of The Kinks was Ray Davies.

I had to pause for a moment after that group. The reverse rainbow was in play, so I didn’t want to make any hasty moves. But I couldn’t really see where to go from there. BLUFF, SUIT and POT could have gone together as a set of poker terms, but I didn’t see a fourth word that would work, other than maybe ACTION.

POOL, KITTY, PURSE and POT was also a contender. But as I was looking at PLAIN, the blues suddenly hit me. I knew in my gut that had to be right. (As for the clue, it’s a little off-kilter, but I’ll take any excuse to use a Biffy Clyro song.)

The last two groups then became clear, but I had to guess which ones were the greens. Again, I went with my instinct and bam! I was right. My second-ever reverse rainbow!

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Monday’s game if you need them.

P.S. With my purple clue, we have to go with a Kinks song today. And there’s no doubt in my mind that it has to be “Lola, L-O-L-A, Lola.” A true classic that might just go down smoothly for you on a Sunday morning:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!

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