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ForbesNYT “Connections” tips and answers for Tuesday, December 24thFrom Kris Holt

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Holidays! If I knew how (and was allowed to edit stock photos to use here), I would have photoshopped little Santa hats onto the pins in the image above.

Today I raise a glass to you, your family and friends. Here’s to good health and great times with the people who mean the most to us.

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Today NYT Connections Hints and answers for Wednesday, December 25th 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…

• QUEEN
• STAR
• CUPID
• STRONG
• RUDOLPH
• PROTECT
• NANNY
• COMET
• VIXEN
• MOON
• ROBIN HOOD
• SHANNON
• HAWKEYE
• FEY
• JENNY
• PLANET

And the clues for today Connections Groups are:

• Yellow group – they are mostly out of this world
• Green Group – Katniss, Merida and Rambo would fit here
• Blue Group –

• Purple Group – familiar faces for late night NBC viewers

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 – celestial objects
• Green Group – Archers
• Blue group – female animals
• Purple Group – SNL Actor

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 – celestial objects (COMET, MOON, PLANET, STAR)
• Green Group – Archers (CUPID, HAWKEYE, ROBIN HOOD, SAGITTARIUS)
• Blue group – female animals (JENNY, NANNY, QUEEN, VIXEN)
• Purple Group – SNL Actors (FEY, RUDOLPH, SHANNON, STRONG)

Neato, I played a perfect game. That brings me to three wins in a row. This is what happened to me:

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The names of Santa’s reindeer have been listed here in time: CUPID, RUDOLPH, COMET and VIXEN. But as soon as I saw ROBIN HOOD and HAWKEYE, I knew there would be a group of archers.

(Tina) FEY and (Maya) RUDOLPH suggested to me that there would be a group Saturday Night Live Alumni, but aside from (Molly) SHANNON, I wasn’t quite sure what else would fit. It took me a moment to realize that the missing puzzle piece was Cecily STRONG.

I could see the celestial bodies clearly enough and assumed they were the yellows, so I submitted the blues first. However, I didn’t make that connection.

A JENNY is a female donkey, a NANNY is a female goat, a QUEEN is a female cat (or queen bee), and a vixen is a female vixen.

That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. Be sure to check out my blog tomorrow for hints and the walkthrough for Thursday’s game if you need it.

PS Since it’s Christmas Day, let’s start with the very best Christmas movie: Die Hard. It’s far from being for kids, but it’s a fantastic thriller with lots of holiday vibes. Yippee ki-yay, indeed:

I wish you a wonderful day! Make sure you drink enough water! Call someone you love!

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