Mastering Today's Connections: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Today marks another opportunity to engage with the New York Times’ Connections puzzle. If you’re aiming to keep your streak alive and are just stuck on that one difficult category, we’ve got the hints to help you out.

Below, you’ll find everything from subtle hints that guide your thinking to the exact answers. Whether you need a gentle nudge in the right direction or a way to maintain your perfect record, you’re in the right spot.

If you stumbled upon this page but need answers for January 11, click here.

Category Hints

We’ll provide hints starting from the easiest category to the hardest: Yellow, Green, Blue, and then Purple.

If you’re interested in today’s category hints, click below! These hints won’t reveal the actual category names, but will help steer you towards them.

Today’s yellow category is about fake things.

Today’s green category pertains to dating.

Today’s blue category focuses on video games.

Today’s purple category relates to a word often associated with ‘being an end’, ‘wagging’, and ‘flowing from the back of something’.

Watch Out: Strangely, Sonic the Hedgehog does not belong in the blue category; he is a red herring.