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Connections is a new twist on the New York Times' daily puzzle lineup. Ready to test your word association skills? Players have to group 16 words into four categories each day. The puzzle is a challenging game structure with a set deadline that resets at midnight on a nightly basis. In today's puzzle, Connections #555, let's see what it has in store.
NYT Connections is an engaging puzzle where players are invited to find common threads between seemingly unrelated words. It’s a simple but tricky game concept. Here, players have to group four word that have something in common. However, many words can fall within many categories so only one of these categories will be correct.
With word sets presented every day, each puzzle is a new challenge. The difficulty of each word set is represented by the game’s color-coded system (yellow, green, blue, purple). Purple is the most difficult and Yellow is the easiest. The game ends with four mistakes for each player.
Fortunately, the opportunity to map the words leads them to retry finding connections.
Don’t worry if you’re stuck on today’s puzzle! This article will provide you with some helpful hints and strategies to solve this puzzle and aid you in your work with Connections.
Here’s a sneak peek into the categories for today’s Connections puzzle:
Yellow: Courage, boldness, or bravery
Green: Types of pathways
Blue: Ways to use paper
Purple: Places where Tennis is played
These hints will give a little idea of categories. Choices to language games will be along similar lines as words group themselves to common meanings and attributes; be open to thinking in flexible ways.
For players looking for extra help, here are today’s categories for Connections #555:
Intrepidity (Yellow)
Road (Green)
Kinds of Paper (Blue)
Types of Tennis Courts (Purple)
Players have to identify words based on a particular theme in each category. It's a bit tricky to separate words like PLUCK, NERVE, or HEALTH. Can CARPET and CLAY be put in the same group, and if so, with HARD? This is where strategy comes into play.
Break it Down: Group words by meaning. ROAD has shared qualities with AVENUE, saying HEALTH and NERVE might seem unlikelier, but they do have a commonality. The trick is to see beyond the first impression.
Don’t Rush: You are allowed to make up to four mistakes on the game but it is recommended that you take your time. Shuffling the words helps you notice patterns you might have missed at first.
Use Process of Elimination: Eliminate the words that sound bad when there’s more than one group that they fit in to. Sometimes bringing together disparate words can act as a spur to new ideas.
Here are the correct groupings for today’s Connections puzzle:
Intrepidity: GRIT, HEALTH, NERVE, PLUCK
Road: ARTERY, AVENUE, DRAG, DRIVE
Kinds of Paper: GRAPH, TISSUE, CONSTRUCTION, WAX
Kinds of Tennis Courts: CARPET, CLAY, GRASS, HARD
The words in each category have a link to one another, types of roads (DRIVE, AVENUE), and different types of tennis courts (CARPET, CLAY, etc) among them.
There were some categories that were trickier than others but if you followed the hints and strategies you probably got them all.
Connections is a huge hit on social media and is now a favorite daily puzzle for many people. It is a combination of ‘word association’, ‘deduction’ and ‘memory’ which makes it a different, fun and interesting game. Each day, it becomes more complex and the players come back and try to solve.
The NYT Connections game is a fun and addictive game to flex your word association muscles. It's a good way to exercise your vocabulary and reasoning whilst getting a daily challenge to enjoy. New to the game or experienced, today’s puzzle was a gentle, but nonetheless a reminder of the game’s ability to keep players on their toes.
Dont forget that each new puzzle presents an opportunity to get better, learn, and polish up your problem solving skills. Keep an eye out for more daily hints and tips in future Connections challenges!
