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ForbesNYT “Connections” tips and answers for Saturday, December 14thFrom Kris Holt

Hello! I hope you have the best weekend you can imagine.

I’m still raving about many of the games that were revealed at the recent Game Awards (I also had a lot of fun covering the news with my colleagues). It was a good show overall, thanks to glimpses of new projects from artists like Naughty Dog and many others Okami Consequence. I wasn’t disappointed that there weren’t any Grand Theft Auto VI Newsflash – I actually think the show didn’t need this because it had such a strong showing this year.

Before we begin, I created a discussion group for Connections and this column on Discord. You can chat with me and other people about any game (and other topics). I’m always curious to see how other people approach the game, so join in! It will be fun.

It’s also the best way to give me feedback on the column, especially on the rare (!) occasions when I mess something up.

Today NYT Connections Hints and answers for Sunday, December 15th 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, for example, elements that 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…

• THUMB
• KEY
• SHEET
• STYLE
• CLUB
• DAMAGE
• SCHLEGEL
• FLIP
• SPEAR
• CLOVE
• TANK
• PEPPER
• GUN
• FLOUNDER
• NUTMEG
• FLOP

And the clues for today Connections Groups are:

• Yellow group – aromas
• Green group – screw it up
• Blue group – quickly leaf through a book or newspaper
• Purple Group – well-known artists. but a little shorter

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 – spices
• Green group – poor performance
• Blue group – skim, as pages
• Lila Group – pop singers without an “S”

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 – spices (clove, mace, nutmeg, pepper)
• Green group – poor performance (FLAIL, FLOP, FLOUNDER, TANK)
• Blue group – scroll through pages (FLIP, LEAF, RIFFLE, THUMB)
• Lila Group – pop singers without “S” (KEY, MAR, SPEAR, STYLE)

Hey, that’s two perfect games in a row this weekend. I’ll take that. This is what happened to me:

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I wondered for a second if there might be something to match MACE, FLAIL and SPEAR for a group of medieval weapons. It was obviously a diversionary tactic and nothing else worked anyway.

That’s why I considered an alternative meaning for each word. This resulted in me getting the greens and yellows pretty quickly.

I thought that the blues seemed very clear after reading just the last eight words. Since I like to file the purples as quickly as possible, I submitted these first, even though I didn’t figure out the connection. This gave the Blues a comfortable win.

For clarification, the purple shades refer to Alicia KEYs, Bruno MARs, Britney SPEARs and Harry STYLEs.

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

PS: I can’t necessarily stick to a Harry Styles song recommendation since I added one yesterday. Let’s use a Keys track instead. I still love their debut single “Fallin’”. It was a huge success and earned Keys three Grammy awards:

I wish you a wonderful day! Call someone you love!

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