Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Fri, December 6th
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Connections hints for Friday 6th 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): Connections is designed to make you feel this way.
- Green (Easy): A witch might cast this on you.
- Blue (Medium): These all showed up in that movie about talking toys.
- Purple (Hardest): These are often added to the ends of other words to form expressions.
- Extra hint 1: Buzz and Rex belong in the same group.
- Extra hint 2: Think of Core as Hardcore. Now think about what other words here have similar transformations.
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):
Vex
Green (Easy):
Spell
Blue (Medium):
Rex
Purple (Hardest):
Gate
What are today’s Connections words?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Puzzle | Mania | Buzz | Gate |
| Core | Hex | Vex | Rex |
| Slinky | Stump | Pox | Perplex |
| Jinx | Hamm | Spell | Pilled |
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:
- Baffle
- Curse
- “Toy Story” Characters, Familiarly
- Colloquial 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 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, 6th December:
- Baffle: Perplex, Puzzle, Stump, Vex
- Curse: Hex, Jinx, Pox, Spell
- “Toy Story” Characters, Familiarly: Buzz, Hamm, Rex, Slinky
- Colloquial Suffixes: Core, Gate, Mania, Pilled
Hopefully you’ve seen Toy Story – that’ll make today’s puzzle ten times easier. Personally, my biggest struggle was with the Colloquial Suffixes group. I’ve seen the Matrix, yes, but I still don’t exactly understand what “Red-Pilled” means…
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.
