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Date : Thu Dec 26 2024 00:15:05

NYT Connections today  my hints and answers for Thursday, December 26 (game 
#564)

Date:
Thu, 26 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 
#564) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) 

Today's NYT Connections words are TIDY ALA HANDSOME ELDER SPRUCE LIKE PINE 
MISS HEALTHY ROUGHLY ARK PALM ABOUT RESPECTABLE ORE AROUND NYT Connections 
today (game #564) - hint #1 - group hints 

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Generally 
similar GREEN: Evergreens BLUE: A decent portion PURPLE: Four of the 50 

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 #564) - hint #2 - group answers 

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: 
APPROXIMATELY GREEN: TREES BLUE: SIZABLE, AS AN AMOUNT PURPLE: U.S. STATE 
ABBREVIATIONS, PER AP STYLE GUIDE 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT 
TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #564) - the answers (Image credit: 
New York Times) 

The answers to today's Connections, game #564, are YELLOW: APPROXIMATELY 
ABOUT, AROUND, LIKE, ROUGHLY GREEN: TREES ELDER, PALM, PINE, SPRUCE BLUE: 
SIZABLE, AS AN AMOUNT HANDSOME, HEALTHY, RESPECTABLE, TIDY PURPLE: U.S. STATE 
ABBREVIATIONS, PER AP STYLE GUIDE ALA, ARK, MISS, ORE My rating: Moderate My 
score: 2 mistakes 

I wasted time today thinking HANDSOME, HEALTHY and SPRUCE were somehow 
connected  I was imagining some shaving gel commercial featuring some buff 
man with a chiseled jaw admiring himself in the mirror and thinking how, erm, 
ARK he is. Sometimes when you cant find the fourth word its for a good 
reason. 

After seeing the tree link, I got there in the end  although those state 
abbreviations were far from obvious and I would never have got them if it 
wasnt for the fact that they were the final Purple four. We still click on 
those last four words like we knew all along though, right? Yeah, yeah U.S. 
STATE ABBREVIATIONS, PER AP STYLE GUIDE, yeah, yeah, I knew that. Yesterday's 
NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 25 December, game #563) YELLOW: CELESTIAL 
OBJECTS COMET, MOON, PLANET, STAR GREEN: ARCHERS CUPID, HAWKEYE, ROBIN HOOD, 
SAGITTARIUS BLUE: FEMALE ANIMALS JENNY, NANNY, QUEEN, VIXEN PURPLE: "S.N.L." 
CAST MEMBERS FEY, RUDOLPH, SHANNON, STRONG 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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