NYT Connections hints and answers for today (#959), Sunday Jan 25
Need a Connections hint for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #959.
Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Sunday, 25th January? They’re certainly challenging, the Connections puzzles, but they’re never impossible to solve. Not with a guide by your side, at least! Your next puzzle success is merely a few hints and tips away.
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.
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).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
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:
- ALT
- ATE
- BOWTIE
- COVER
- DOM
- ENTER
- FILL IN
- HOOD
- MENU
- RIBBON
- SHELL
- SHIP
- SUB
- TEMP
- TUBE
- WINDOWS
Connections hint for Sunday 25th January
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: They replace something.
- Green: Can you press them?
- Blue: Look for shapes.
- Purple: They’re used as “additions”.
- Extra hint 1: Every theme except green contains a word starting with “S”.
- Extra hint 2: One of today’s themes contains food that must be cooked.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Temp
- Green: Menu
- Blue: Ribbon
- Purple: Hood
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: Act As A Backup
- Green: PC Keyboard Keys
- Blue: Pasta Shapes
- Purple: Suffixes
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.Connections answer today
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Sunday, 25th January:
Purple: Suffixes (Ate, Dom, Hood, Ship)
Yellow: Act As A Backup (Cover, Fill In, Sub, Temp)
Green: PC Keyboard Keys (Alt, Enter, Menu, Windows)
Blue: Pasta Shapes (Bowtie, Ribbon, Shell, Tube)
I thought I’d found the yellow theme when I noticed the keyboard keys “alt” and “enter”. As someone stuck behind a keyboard every day, I’d say that’s the easiest theme in this Connections puzzle, far more than the real yellow theme.
Unfortunately, I didn’t find the blue and purple themes today. The purple one I just didn’t get (makes sense now that I see the word “suffixes”), but failing the blue one is simply due to cultural differences.
“Bowtie” and “shell” are pasta shapes? I guess that’s what they’re called in English-speaking countries. I know shapes like “bowtie” by their original name only: farfalle (butterflies). “Shell” is probably conchiglie, “tube” might be penne or rigatoni, and “ribbon”… I’ve no idea. Maybe tagliatelle?
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!
