NYT Connections hints and answers for today #962, Wednesday Jan 28
Need a Connections hint for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #962.
Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Wednesday, 28th January? It isn’t easy at all to find matches within the Connections puzzle’s sixteen-word mesh. If you’re having trouble today, don’t feel bad, and don’t worry for your victory streak either; this guide will lend you a helping hand.
Below, you’ll find hints, tips, and small spoilers aplenty. Let’s uncover today’s Connections secrets!
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:
- BUCKET
- DUMMY
- GLOVES
- ME
- MOCK
- MOTOR
- NEEDLE
- PLATTER
- PRETEND
- RAG
- RIB
- SHAM
- SOAP
- TIME
- TIRE
- TONEARM
Connections hint for Wednesday 28th January
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: It’s not the real thing.
- Green: As used in the fight against dirt.
- Blue: Together they make music.
- Purple: Add someting merciful.
- Extra hint 1: Every theme contains either a word starting with a “T” or an “S”.
- Extra hint 2: Only one theme doesn’t contain any four-letter words.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Pretend
- Green: Bucket
- Blue: Needle
- Purple: Time
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: Imitation
- Green: Cleaning Supplies
- Blue: Components Of A Record Player
- Purple: Spare ___
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 Wednesday, 28th January:
- Yellow: Imitation (Dummy, Mock, Pretend, Sham)
- Green: Cleaning Supplies (Bucket, Gloves, Rag, Soap)
- Blue: Components Of A Record Player (Motor, Needle, Platter, Tonearm)
- Purple: Spare ___ (Me, Rib, Time, Tire)
I saw “bucket” and “gloves”, and I almost instantly thought of “cleaning”. I initially assumed that might be to broad a connection, but as soon as I noticed “soap” and “rag”, I knew it couldn’t be wrong. For me, today’s green Connections theme was on the easier side.
The words “mock” and “dummy” led me to “imitations”, but from there, my progress halted for a bit. I gathered “motor” and “tonearm” might have something to do with a machine, but I didn’t think of a record player.
I also suspected an “add a word” purple theme, but failed to find the word. I ultimately decided to try a “machine” theme including motor, tire, needle, and tonearm, which was (trying to find some consolation here) almost correct.
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!
