Today’s NYT Connections puzzle may be easier to solve if you’re familiar with shipping labels and package warnings. Connections is one of The New York Times’ most popular word games, challenging players to find the “common threads between words.”
Like Wordle, Connections resets at midnight, with a new set of increasingly difficult words each day. If you want to solve the puzzle yourself, use the hints and category clues below. If you’re ready for the solution, skip to the end for today’s Connections answers.
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What is NYT Connections?
Connections is The New York Times’ daily word game and has become a popular social media challenge. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping create the game and bring it to the publication’s Games section.
Available in web browsers and on mobile devices, Connections asks players to divide 16 words into four groups of four based on a shared connection. The categories can include book titles, software, country names, and many other topics.
Although several words may appear to belong together, each puzzle has only one correct solution. Correct groups are removed from the board, while incorrect guesses count as mistakes. Players can make up to four mistakes before the game ends.
Players can rearrange and shuffle the board to make connections easier to spot. The categories are also color-coded by difficulty: yellow is the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. As with Wordle, players can share their results on social media.
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Hints for today’s Connections categories
Want a clue without revealing the categories? Try these hints:
- Yellow: They come in the same container
- Green: Pack it up
- Blue: Leaders
- Purple: A dish
Today’s Connections categories
Need more help? Today’s Connections categories are:
- Yellow: Things that come in tubes
- Green: Warnings on a shipping box
- Blue: Historical sovereign titles
- Purple: ___ Bowl
Today’s NYT Connections answers
This is your final chance to solve today’s puzzle before seeing the answers.
The solution to today’s Connections #1176 is:
- Things that come in tubes: LIPSTICK, POSTER, TENNIS BALLS, TOOTHPASTE
- Warnings on a shipping box: FRAGILE, HEAVY, PERISHABLE, THIS SIDE UP
- Historical sovereign titles: CALIPH, KHAN, PHAROAH, SHOGUN
- ___ Bowl: DUST, POKE, SALAD, SUPER
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