Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? Connections December 31 answers for puzzle #569 are slightly easier than yesterday’s puzzle, with Connections Companion rating the difficulty of this puzzle at 2.8 out of 5.
Every day we update this article with Connections tips and tricks to help you find today’s 4 answers so you can continue your Connections streak. And if the clues aren’t enough, below you’ll find the four answers, with the category titles and corresponding words.
Additionally, we’re including a reflection on yesterday’s puzzle, #568, in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers await for Connections #569. Read on only if you want to know today’s Connections answers.
You can also check out our How to Play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
Today’s Connections Answer: Tips to Help You Solve It
Unlike our guide to the Wordle answer today, where we recommend the best Wordle seed words as a strategy, solving connections relies on identifying connection categories among 16 words. The difficulty level of each category is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest group and purple is the most difficult. Once you make 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Les mots Connections d’aujourd’hui sont : Ball, Drop, Dart, Game, Attention, Dear, Brand, Names, Thrill, For, Fly, Blast, Bolt, Kick, To, Dash.
If you need clues to solve the groupings, here are the themes for each, based on order of difficulty:
- ???? Jaune: Move quickly
- ???? Vert: Moment of pleasure
- ???? Bleu: Words in front of an addressee
- ???? Violet: Nom _____
These tips should help you at least partially find today’s Connections answers. If not, you can read on for more in-depth clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, scroll down.
Here’s a broader clue: Hurry up! We’re going to have fun. But read the invitation addressed to you and think about what comes after the name.
Answers to Today’s Connections
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #569?
Drum roll, please…
- ???? Move quickly: Bolt, Dart, Dash, Fly
- ???? Fun moment: Bullet, explosion, kick, thrill
- ???? Words in front of a recipient: Attention, dear, for, to
- ???? Nom ____: Brand, Drop, Game, Names
I found today’s puzzle extremely difficult, but after some shuffling I gathered the speed element for the yellow clues.
I got a little hung up on the second one, piecing together funny things. I’ve seen Ball, Blast and Thrill, but I never considered that the word Kick meant having a fun time. Fortunately, after a mistake, I guessed Kick to lock the green category.
Left with eight choices and two categories, I had to dig and circle my brain to find connections. After several reworks, I spotted the link with ways to start a letter and I was right, leaving only the last four.
Answers to yesterday’s connections
- ???? Lunch orders: Club, Hero, Melt, Wrap
- ???? Used to make coffee: Beans, filter, grinder, water
- ???? Pay, with “up”: Ante, cough, pony, rule
- ???? Names containing “!” »: Avion, Jeopardy, Rose, Yahoo
Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #568, which had a difficulty rating of 3.3 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
I was hungry when I started today’s puzzle and I immediately timed the sandwiches with the hero, melt them, wrap them and at the start I put the grinder on. Hit one. I replaced the movie with a club. Strike 2.
Finally, I looked around a little more and made the connections of the coffee with the beans, the filter, the grinder and the water. Then we went back to get the sandos.
Which left me looking at ante and settlement, which got me thinking about poker. I made the connection with Pony and was stuck for a minute before finally seeing the cough for what it was.
Which left the last group of things with it! in the name. Airplane, Jeopardy, P!nk and Yahoo. I actually had the right idea for all four, but I wasn’t making the punctuation connection, which is part of why they lasted so long.
