Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Thu, December 26th
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Connections hints for Thursday 26th 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): Close, almost, a bit similar…
- Green (Easy): Types of trees.
- Blue (Medium): That’s a […] sum of money!
- Purple (Hardest): It’s a state, but shorter.
- Extra hint 1: In this case, ‘handsome’ isn’t used to describe someone’s looks.
- Extra hint 2: Have you ever been to Alabama?
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):
Around
Green (Easy):
Palm
Blue (Medium):
Tidy
Purple (Hardest):
Ore
What are today’s Connections words?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Tidy | Ala | Handsome | Elder |
| Spruce | Like | Pine | Miss |
| Healthy | Roughly | Ark | Palm |
| About | Respectable | Ore | Around |
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:
- Approximately
- Trees
- Sizable, As An Amount
- U.S. State Abbreviations, Per Ap Style Guide
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 Thursday, 26th December:
- Approximately: About, Around, Like, Roughly
- Trees: Elder, Palm, Pine, Spruce
- Sizable, As An Amount: Handsome, Healthy, Respectable, Tidy
- U.S. State Abbreviations, Per Ap Style Guide: Ala, Ark, Miss, Ore
Those U.S. state abbreviations are so easy to overlook! Perhaps it’s easier to guess them if you happen to live in one. In my opinion, the ‘trees’ category was by far the most obvious Connections group today. I’ve played many survival games, so I’ve chopped my fair share of pine and spruce – that probably helped.Related
NYT Connections hints and answers (Wednesday 25th)
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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.
