Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Fri, December 13th
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Connections hints for Friday 13th December
Here’s a hint for each of the word groups in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a couple more Connections clues to help you find the answer.
Our Connections hints for today are:
- Yellow (Easiest): Mythical creatures.
- Green (Easy): Besides your ‘inbox’, you also have these folders.
- Blue (Medium): Soft drinks.
- Purple (Hardest): They sound like animals…
- Extra hint 1: Spotting a wild boar is never a bore, is it?
- Extra hint 2: Three members of the blue group start with an ‘s’.
If you’re looking for more Connections hints today to help narrow down the answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
Yellow (Easiest):
Troll
Green (Easy):
Trash
Blue (Medium):
Sprite
Purple (Hardest):
Links
What are today’s Connections words?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Trash | Phish | Crush | Troll |
| Bore | Spam | Links | Squirt |
| Sprite | Towed | Giant | Drafts |
| Pixie | Sent | Starry | Dragon |
What are 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:
- Fantasy Creatures
- Email Folders
- Citrus Sodas
- Animal Homophones
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check just below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle on Friday, 13th December:
- Fantasy Creatures: Dragon, Giant, Pixie, Troll
- Email Folders: Drafts, Sent, Spam, Trash
- Citrus Sodas: Crush, Sprite, Squirt, Starry
- Animal Homophones: Bore, Links, Phish, Towed
If you dream of mythical lands inhabited by fantastical creatures whilst you spend your workday behind a computer screen, sending emails left and right, you should have no trouble with the first two word groups in today’s Connections. The other two are trickier – the only soft drink I know is ‘sprite’, so it’s a good thing I eventually caught on to the animal homophones.
