Are you looking for a clue to help you with today’s Connections puzzle on December 12th? If you can’t quite connect the words today, this guide will give you some clues to help you solve your connection puzzle.

Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by The New York Times (NYT), host of the endlessly popular Wordle Puzzle. Created each day by puzzle maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly different words that you must group into four groups of four, with each group of four words having a common theme.

It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, connections can sometimes be fiendishly difficult, chock-full of red herrings, misleading words and little-known trivia. If you are having difficulty solving today’s connection puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers for Thursday, December 12, 2024.

Below we offer some carefully crafted hints and hints for today’s Connections. We then reveal the four different groups, and finally the Connections answer themselves for those who are tired of wondering how it all fits together.

In this guide:

Connection instructions for Thursday, December 12th

Here you’ll find a clue for each word group in today’s Connections puzzle, as well as a few other Connections clues to help you find the answer.

Our Connections tips for today are:

• Yellow (easiest): The same sound, four times.
• Green (simple): Handle with care!
• Blue (Medium): Use them if you don’t like the F-word.
• Purple (hardest): This group of words is rather wet.
• Extra note 1: You can drink a word from the yellow group and eat something from the blue group.
• Extra note 2: The word “meandering” has a connection to the purple group.

If you’re looking for more Connections clues today to narrow down the answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal a word that belongs to each group:

Yellow (easiest):

tea

Green (simple):

gear

Blue (Medium):

Nuts

Purple (hardest):

bank

What are today’s Connections words?

Here are the 16 connecting words for today:

Fudge	Bed	Seen	T-shirt (shirt)
Ti (musical note)	gear	Rats	delta
zipper	Nuts	tea	My goodness
mouth	Tee (golf)	Comb	bank

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What are today’s Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to solve today’s connection puzzle, below we’ll show you the four correct connection groups – the topics that connect each set of four words in the connection grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Things that sound like “T”.
• Objects with teeth
• Mild oaths
• Parts Of A River

Now that you know the themes for the different connections in today’s puzzle, try solving it! If not, please find the full answer below.

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Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer is in front of you!

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What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle on Thursday, December 12:

• Things that sound like “T”: Tee, Tee (golf), Tee (shirt), Ti (musical note)
• Objects with teeth: Comb, gear, saw, zipper
• Mild oaths: Fudge, my goodness, nuts, rats
• Parts of a river: Bench, bed, delta, mouth

Personally, I think the Mild Oaths group was the most surprising in today’s Connections puzzle, as you have to think about their secondary uses. “Things that sound like T” is a bit obvious in comparison, isn’t it? I bet most of you guessed the river sections before the gentle vows too.

Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy tips above! And if you didn’t make it today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like Wordle.

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What are connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games published by The New York Times (owner of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words having a common theme.

For example, the words “Hook,” “Nana,” “Peter,” and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to give another example: “Action,” “Ballpark,” “Go,” and “Stick” are all words that usually come directly before the word “Figure.”

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the different words together – but be careful, because false connections are often deliberately inserted there to throw you off! To win the game you must find all four connections without making four mistakes. On the fourth mistake the game is over and the answer is displayed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day’s connection puzzle is also assigned a different color, indicating how easy or difficult the connection is to find. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (easy), blue (medium), and purple (most difficult).

That concludes today’s guide to solving the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you are looking for help with Wordle, we also have a list of previous Wordle answers as well as the Wordle clue and answer for Wednesday December 11th. You can also check out our list of the best starting words for Wordle or use our Wordle Solver tool to find the answer easily!