NYT Connections today – my hints and answers for Tuesday January 7 (game #576)
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be tricky, so read on if you need pointers.
What should you do when you’re done? Of course, play some word games. I also have daily Strands Hints and Answers and Quordle Hints and Answers articles if you need help with those too, while Marc’s Wordle Today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about today’s NYT Connections is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #576) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- A COUPLE
- LOVE
- BARBER SHOP
- ESSAYS
- A ROSE
- CERTAINLY
- ENOUGH
- A LIFE
- AN AGREEMENT
- PART ONE
- SEVERAL
- A CAPELLA
- A NOVEL
- DOO-WOP
- SOME
- MADRIGAL
NYT Connections Today (Game #576) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Singing groups
- VEGETABLES: A small amount
- BLUE: Biography subtitles
- PURPLE: Really and truly
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #576) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: VOCAL MUSIC
- GREEN: A HANDFUL
- BLUE: BOOK SUBTITLES
- PURPLE: _ IS _ (IS _)
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #576) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #576 are…
- YELLOW: VOCAL MUSIC A CAPPELLA, BARBER SHOP, DOO-WOP, MADRIGAL
- GREEN: A HANDFUL A FEW, PARTICULAR, SINGLE, DIFFERENT
- BLUE: BOOK SUBTITLES A LIFE, A NOVEL, ESSAYS, PART ONE
- PURPLE: _ IS _ (IS _) A DEAL, A ROSE, ENOUGH, LOVE
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: 3 mistakes
I found today’s Connections utterly baffling and only completed it by chance – and even then it took a while to fully understand what the Purple group was about. I think seeing A LIFE, A NOVEL, A COUPLE, A DEAL and A ROSE on the starting grid confused my brain and I had trouble recovering and thinking logically.
That said, I got VOCAL MUSIC pretty quickly, but the rest was random guesswork – despite the fact that I was singing along to No more tears (enough is enough) by Barbara Streisand and Donna Summer on New Year’s Eve. A roller disco classic if there ever was one.
My head hurts.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, January 6, game #575)
- YELLOW: BREATH HARD CHOPPING, HIGHING, panting, puffing
- GREEN: CATCH BLANKET, WIDE, GENERAL, UMBRELLA
- BLUE: METAPHORS FOR EASY THINGS ABC, BREEZE, PICNIC, CAKE
- PURPLE: SYNONYMS FOR BACK MINUS LAST LETTER ARS, BOOT, BUT, RUM
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the New York Times’ increasingly popular word games. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is often quite tough, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t have to solve the last question because you can answer it by a process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.
It’s a bit more complicated than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, beware of homophones and other word games that can obscure the answers.
It is playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.