Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Fri, December 20th
Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #558.
Connections hints for Friday 20th 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): A bartender and a chemist would use these words.
- Green (Easy): You’ll need words to create these things.
- Blue (Medium): Like a ‘gym bro’.
- Purple (Hardest): Don’t… whine about this group’s difficuly.
- Extra hint 1: Only the purple group doesn’t have a word that starts with ‘C’.
- Extra hint 2: One group contains homophones: although they’re spelled differently, they sound the same as something else.
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):
Cocktail
Green (Easy):
Command
Blue (Medium):
Pharma
Purple (Hardest):
Whale
What are today’s Connections words?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Whale | Cocktail | Finance | Question |
| Statement | Solution | Grown | Wine |
| Tech | Command | Compound | Crypto |
| Mown | Pharma | Exclamation | Mixture |
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:
- Concoction
- Types Of Sentences
- Kinds Of Bros
- Complaint 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, 20th December:
- Concoction: Cocktail, Compound, Mixture, Solution
- Types Of Sentences: Command, Exclamation, Question, Statement
- Kinds Of Bros: Crypto, Finance, Pharma, Tech
- Complaint Homophones: Grown, Mown, Whale, Wine
That moment you see (or rather hear) the homophones in a Connections puzzle never gets old. Today’s homophone group was relatively easy to find for me, but the yellow category (concoctions) was a bit harder due to the word ‘compound’. I’m no chemist, so I was thinking of word compounds rather than chemical unions for quite a while!Related
NYT Connections hints and answers (Thursday 19th)
Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #556.
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.
