Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Sun, December 15th
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Connections hints for Sunday 15th 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): Add more flavour.
- Green (Easy): Far from peak performance.
- Blue (Medium): You will constantly do this with the pages of your book.
- Purple (Hardest): Perhaps you could add an ‘S’.
- Extra hint 1: Many words in the green group begin with ‘F’.
- Extra hint 2: Think of popular singers and remove one letter from their name.
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):
Nutmeg
Green (Easy):
Flounder
Blue (Medium):
Flip
Purple (Hardest):
Spear
What are today’s Connections words?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Thumb | Key | Leaf | Style |
| Mace | Mar | Flail | Flip |
| Spear | Clove | Tank | Sage |
| Riffle | Flounder | Nutmeg | Flop |
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:
- Spices
- Perform Poorly
- Skim Through, As Pages
- Pop Singers Minus “S”
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 Sunday, 15th December:
- Spices: Clove, Mace, Nutmeg, Sage
- Perform Poorly: Flail, Flop, Flounder, Tank
- Skim Through, As Pages: Flip, Leaf, Riffle, Thumb
- Pop Singers Minus “S”: Key, Mar, Spear, Style
Spears, Keys, Mars… That definitely took me a while. Matching flop, flounder, and flail was easy in comparison, perhaps because they sound so alike. If only this Connections puzzle had used video game characters instead of pop artists, I might’ve set a new personal record.Related
Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #551.
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.
