NYT Connections hints and answers for today (#957), Friday Jan 23
Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Friday, 23rd January? Even as an experienced Connections player, you’re allowed to look for help from time to time. Really, these puzzles are tough, no matter how much practice you’ve had – you can’t solve them all by yourself!
So, don’t hesitate to call for aid, and use the list of hints below to turn your luck around.
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint: Today’s Connections words
- Connections hints for Friday 23rd January
- Today’s Connections groups
- Today’s Connections answers
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
Need a Connections hint for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #957.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”. These are the kinds of Connections you’ll need to make to solve the puzzle.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Connections hint: Today’s Connections words
Below you’ll find various hints for today’s Connections. Each of the below hints will make it progressively easier for you to solve today’s puzzle. First we’ll reveal the words in today’s Connections, followed by our Connections hint for each group. Then we’ll reveal one word inside each group, followed by the groups themselves; and finally, at the bottom of this page, we’ll reveal the answers to today’s Connections puzzle. Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
- ACRE
- BUSHEL
- CHEEK
- EYE
- FLOOD
- FOOT
- GARAGE
- LIME
- LIP
- METER
- PILOT
- STONE
- STREET
- TEMPLE
- TRAFFIC
- VALET
Connections hint for Friday 23rd January
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: As seen in a mirror.
- Green: Think of your car.
- Blue: Use them to measure something.
- Purple: Add the opposite of dark.
- Extra hint 1: There’s no three- or four-letter word in the green theme.
- Extra hint 2: “Foot” and “meter” are in different groups.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Cheek
- Green: Street
- Blue: Acre
- Purple: Pilot
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
Connections hints: All of today’s Connections groups
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Facial Features
- Green: Kinds Of Parking
- Blue: Imperial Units
- Purple: Words Before “Light”
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
Connections answer today
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Friday, 23rd January:
- Yellow: Facial Features (Cheek, Eye, Lip, Temple)
- Green: Kinds Of Parking (Garage, Meter, Street, Valet)
- Blue: Imperial Units (Acre, Bushel, Foot, Stone)
- Purple: Words Before “Light” (Flood, Lime, Pilot, Traffic)
Ah, units of measurement, again. Imperial ones this time. Well, I’m used to grouping units together in Connections puzzles by now, so that blue theme won’t be a problem today.
The next one I got was the “stuff that has something to do with cars” theme. Yes, that’s what I named it in my mind; I’m not entirely sure why I didn’t just say “parking” either!
The face theme was fairly straightforward. So much, in fact, that I wondered if I’d missed something before handing it in. But no, “facial features” really was the yellow theme. And that was lucky, might I add, because I never found a clue to lead me towards the purple theme today.Do you play online quizzes and puzzles?
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Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!
