Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Sun, December 29th
Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #567.
Connections hints for Sunday 29th 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): Think of a colour.
- Green (Easy): When you arrange a meeting, these words are applicable.
- Blue (Medium): The words in this group have something to do with hair.
- Purple (Hardest): Trees, but different.
- Extra hint 1: The words starting with a ‘B’ belong to either the yellow or the purple group.
- Extra hint 2: ‘Pair’ sounds like ‘pear’, doesn’t it?
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):
Cherry
Green (Easy):
Date
Blue (Medium):
Wisp
Purple (Hardest):
Beach
What are today’s Connections words?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Beach | Date | Lock | Cherry |
| Fur | Maroon | Time | Pair |
| Strand | Head | Location | Brick |
| Duration | You | Ruby | Wisp |
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:
- Shades Of Red
- Appointment Specifications
- Different Amounts Of Hair
- Tree 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 Sunday, 29th December:
- Shades Of Red: Brick, Cherry, Maroon, Ruby
- Appointment Specifications: Date, Duration, Location, Time
- Different Amounts Of Hair: Head, Lock, Strand, Wisp
- Tree Homophones: Beach, Fur, Pair, You
Connections veterans are always on the lookout for homophones, but even they might have some trouble with today’s ‘tree homophones’ category. ‘Beach/beech’ was the first one I got, but ‘pair’ and ‘you’ took a while. Luckily, the shades of red were quite obvious to me – had the other groups been trickier, I’m not sure I would’ve solved this one.Related
NYT Connections hints and answers (Saturday 28th)
Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #565.
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.
What is Connections?
Connections is one of the most popular 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”.
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 red herring connections placed in there deliberately 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).
That wraps up today’s guide on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for help with Wordle, we’ve also got you covered with our list of past Wordle answers, as well as the Wordle hint and answer for Saturday 28th December. You can also check out our list of the best starting words for Wordle, or use our Wordle Solver tool to help you find the answer with ease!
