NYT Connections today hints and answers for Sunday, December 8 (game #546)

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Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:02:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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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 clues.

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 #546) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are SANDWICH CATERPILLAR SHOEHORN SEOUL SLUG WRAP WEDGE SOCK PUMA BELT METTLE DOVE INDY GREYHOUND BLOW SQUEEZE NYT Connections today (game #546) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: So you wanna be a boxer? Green: No space left Blue: Branded creatures Purple: Sounds like sounds

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 #546) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW:PUNCH GREEN:CRAM BLUE:COMPANIES NAMED AFTER ANIMALS PURPLE:HOMOPHONES OF MUSIC GENRES

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #546) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #546, are YELLOW:PUNCH BELT, BLOW, SLUG, SOCK GREEN:CRAM SANDWICH, SHOEHORN, SQUEEZE, WEDGE BLUE:COMPANIES NAMED AFTER ANIMALS CATERPILLAR, DOVE, GREYHOUND, PUMA PURPLE:HOMOPHONES OF MUSIC GENRES INDY, METTLE, SEOUL, WRAP My rating: Easy My score: Perfect

Today was one of those magical green-light days when Connections made perfect sense. Usually I'm floundering around for the fourth word, falling into the red herring traps, or failing to see the obvious before my eyes. But today it just clicked.

After watching Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson last month, I'm well versed in the
rich variety of ways to describe hitting someone or indeed not hitting someone. That led me to yellow, PUNCH, while green (CRAM) was only a little harder.

As always, blue and purple were harder, but having owned a pair back in the day, it was CATERPILLAR boots I thought of first before the multi-legged insect making it easy to make the link with other COMPANIES NAMED AFTER ANIMALS with the addition of PUMA, GREYHOUND, and DOVE. Had I not been so familiar with the boot brand, I would have been looking for another insect to go along with SLUG. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 7
December, game #545) YELLOW:THINK OF TOGETHER AFFILIATE, ASSOCIATE, EQUATE, RELATE GREEN:WAYS TO ATTRACT FISH BAIT, CHUM, FLY, LURE BLUE:W.N.B.A. TEAMS LIBERTY, STORM, SUN, WINGS PURPLE:LONG___ BOW, FELLOW, HORN, LEGS 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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