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 Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- FOCUS
- FACE
- FIELD
- JEOPARDY
- RIBBON
- PIN
- WHEEL
- EAR
- PASSWORD
- AGENT
- CONCENTRATION
- FINGERPRINT
- STANDARD
- ELBOW
- SPECIALTY
- DRIBBLE
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Thing you’re good at
- Green: Security measure
- Blue: BOW is another
- Purple: [Twice] blank
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…
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: AREA OF EXPERTISE
- GREEN: WAYS TO UNLOCK A DEVICE
- BLUE: PASTA SHAPES
- PURPLE: DOUBLE ___
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
The answers to today’s Connections, game #527, are…
- YELLOW: AREA OF EXPERTISE CONCENTRATION, FIELD, FOCUS, SPECIALTY
- GREEN: WAYS TO UNLOCK A DEVICE FACE, FINGERPRINT, PASSWORD, PIN
- BLUE: PASTA SHAPES EAR, ELBOW, RIBBON, WHEEL
- PURPLE: DOUBLE ___ AGENT, DRIBBLE, JEOPARDY, STANDARD
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
I managed a perfect score today, but it owed a huge amount to luck. Not on the first two groups, green and yellow in that order, which were both pretty simple. Green – WAYS TO UNLOCK A DEVICE – was particularly easy given that I’m a technology journalist when not writing this column, with FACE, FINGERPRINT, PASSWORD and PIN all rather obvious.
As is so often the case, I struggled with blue and purple. I had a hunch that WHEEL and EAR might go together with a vague food theme: EAR of corn and WHEEL of cheese, maybe? RIBBON felt like it could work for PASTA, while ELBOW… well, I wasn’t sure, but you get a knuckle of beef, so maybe there was an elbow somewhere. I guessed it without expecting it to be right, but to my amazement it was – and for nearly the right reason. I’d been on the correct path with pasta, because these were all PASTA SHAPES, which was obvious after the fact. Purple was a difficult ‘blank’ variety that I wouldn’t have got, due to not knowing what DOUBLE DRIBBLE means.
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- YELLOW: USED IN HAIR CARE COMB, DRYER, HAIRSPRAY, ROLLERS
- GREEN: MONTHLY EXPENSES GAS, INTERNET, PHONE, RENT
- BLUE: THINGS WITH SPOTS DALMATIAN, DIE, DOMINO, LADYBUG
- PURPLE: ___ CRAB FIDDLER, HERMIT, HORSESHOE, SPIDER