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ForbesToday’s NYT “Connections” tips and answers for December 1stFrom Kris Holt

Hello! Welcome to the start of a new week. I think one of the best things about this time of year is having an excuse to eat some chocolate in the morning after opening the window of the Advent calendar for that day.

As a child, I would sometimes leave it for a few days so I could have more chocolate. If I had understood that this was one of the principles of saving and investing at a young age (as well as concepts like compound interest), I would be in a healthier financial position right now!

At least today NYT Connections Hints and answers for Monday, December 2nd will follow soon.

How to play connections

Connections is a free, popular one New York Times daily pun. You will receive a new puzzle every day at midnight. You can play on that NYT Website or gaming app.

You will be presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to divide them into four groups of four by figuring out the connections between them. The groups can be items you can click on, names of research participants, or words preceded by a body part.

Each puzzle has only one solution, and you have to be careful when it comes to words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix up the words to perhaps better see the connections between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often contains puns.

Select four words that you think go together and click Send. If you guess and are wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to finding the right group, you may see a message saying you’re one word away from the right group, but you still need to figure out which word to swap.

If you make four mistakes, the game is over. Let’s make sure that this doesn’t happen with the help of some tips, and if you really find it difficult, even with today’s ones Connections Answer. Like with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have one NYT You can access the publications with the All Access or Games subscription Connections Archive. This includes every previous game from Connectionsso you can go back and play any songs you missed.

Aside from the first 60 or so games, you should be able to find my clues for each grid via Google if you need to! Simply click here and enter the date of the game for which you need hints or answers to the search query.

What are today’s connection notes?

Scroll slowly! Right after the clues for each of today’s Connections Groups, I will reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you what words appear in them.

Today’s 16 words are…

• TRUMPET
• CROCKET
• CROCODILE
• PAPER
• ALLIGATOR
• HAIR
• WHAC-A-MOLE
• HERALD
• POLO PLAYER
• TRANSMITTED
• LAUREL
• XYLOPHONE
• CARPENTRY
• VIDEO
• RUSH
• EXPLAIN

And the clues for today Connections Groups are:

• Yellow group – announce
• Green group – connected by an object with a long handle and a barrel-shaped end
• Blue group – fashion emblems
• Purple group – linked by a word meaning “to strike”. Alternatively, a speed statement or an example of published writing

What are today’s sorority groups?

Do you need additional help?

Be warned: We’re starting to get into this Spoiler territory.

Today Connections Groups are…

• Yellow group – announce
• Green Group – Things involving mallets
• Blue group – symbol embroidered on a polo shirt
• Purple Group – ____ Clip

What are today’s connection solutions?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today Connections Answer.

This is your final warning!

Today Connections Answers are…

• Yellow Group – Announcement (BROADCAST, DECLARE, HERALD, TRUMPET)
• Green Group – Things to do with mallets (JOINERY, CROCKET, WHAC-A-MOLE, XYLOPHONE)
• Blue group – symbol embroidered on a polo shirt (CROCODILE, LAUREL, POLO PLAYER, SWOOSH)
• Purple Group – ____ Clip (ALLIGATOR, HAIR, PAPER, VIDEO)

Thanks to some silly mistakes, there was no perfect game today. But that’s really five games in a row for you. This is what happened to me:

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POLO PLAYER (Ralph Lauren) made it pretty clear to me that there was a group of fashion logos. But an estimate of that and ALLIGATOR, LAUREL (Fred Perry) and SWOOSH (Nike) were one away from a group. Silly me, the Lacoste logo is a CROCODILE, not an ALLIGATOR – it’s easy to confuse the two! Nevertheless, the blues were over. Funnily enough, I’m wearing a Nike training t-shirt as I write this.

I then made a stupid mistake by combining TRUMPET with WHAC-A-MOLE, CROQUET and XYLOPHONE. I wanted to include CARPENTRY instead. You can thank me for not using this as a hint:

I’m so sorry.

The yellows caught my eye in the smaller grid, but since I always want to leave the purple group as early as possible, I submitted those first. Or at least I tried. I misclicked again and accidentally inserted BROADCAST instead of ALLIGATOR. D’oh!

I wasn’t immediately sure what an alligator clip was, but I derived the purple connection differently (clip is such a great word – it has so many meanings!). Coincidentally, an alligator clip is sometimes called an alligator clip. I wonder how many people will stumble upon this today…

That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for tips and the walkthrough for Tuesday’s game if you need them.

PS: I really, really love The Darkness. I’ve been doing this since I was a child, so for over 20 years. I spent way too much money playing songs from their debut album on the jukebox in my student union’s pool hall. Anyway, it’s an annual tradition for me to use the band’s Christmas song as my ringtone throughout December.

Twenty-one years later, I’m still upset that it was beaten to number one on the Christmas singles chart by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules’ admittedly great cover of “Tears for Fears” (a strangely important thing in the UK). “Crazy world.” But “Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End)” – and the barely veiled children’s joke in the title – will forever be number one in my heart:

I wish you a wonderful day!

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