NYT Connections hints and answers for today #960, Monday Jan 26
Need a Connections hint for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #960.
Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Monday, 26th January? Don’t fret if you’re struggling with this Connections challenge. Firstly, you won’t be the only one, and secondly, this guide can help you figure out the answers even if you haven’t made a single connection so far.
Dedicate a few more minutes of your life to today’s Connections puzzle, and use the hints below to complete it. Good luck!
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:
- BADGE
- BUFFALO
- CLOSE
- COW
- DRAIN
- FIELD
- FLEECE
- FOSTER
- GOA
- MILK
- MOOS
- RABBI
- RATTLE
- RUFFLE
- SQUEEZE
- WEAVER
Connections hint for Monday 26th January
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: “To make use of…”
- Green: Think of the word “intimidate”.
- Blue: As seen in movies.
- Purple: They’re missing something.
- Extra hint 1: Every theme contains either a word starting with an “F” or a “B”.
- Extra hint 2: “Buffalo” and “cow” belong together.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Squeeze
- Green: Ruffle
- Blue: Foster
- Purple: Badge
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: Exploit
- Green: Daunt
- Blue: Iconic Actresses
- Purple: Mammals Minus Last Letter
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 Monday, 26th January:
- Yellow: Exploit (Drain, Fleece, Milk, Squeeze)
- Green: Daunt (Buffalo, Cow, Rattle, Ruffle)
- Blue: Iconic Actresses (Close, Field, Foster, Weaver)
- Purple: Mammals Minus Last Letter (Badge, Goa, Moos, Rabbi)
As I was already trying to find animals, due to “cow” and “buffalo”, my brain quickly turned “moos” into “moose”, which then led me to search for more “incomplete animals”. Needless to say, I didn’t struggle too much with the purple Connections words today.
Without enough animals left to create another theme, I searched for another kind of match and found “fleece” and “squeeze”, thought of “skimming”, then “exploiting”, and so completed the yellow group as well.
I struggled with the green theme, as I didn’t get past a “to disturb” connection between “rattle” and “ruffle”. I did complete blue, though, but only because I figured it was a “famous people” theme and decided to group “anything that might be a family name”, excluding the cow and buffalo.
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!
