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NYT Connections hint and answers for Tuesday, 7th JanNeed some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #575.

Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #575.

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT

An abstract image with an altered Connections logo in the centre, surrounded by circles connected by webbed lines.

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January!

That’s where we come in, with our daily guides for every Connections puzzle. Below you’ll find a group of handy hints to help you solve today’s Connections, and the best part is that you choose how much help you want to receive. We’ve provided a hint for each group below, along with two extra hints if you’re extra stuck. Further below you can reveal one word from each group, then the groups themselves, and finally today’s Connections answer if you’re truly baffled.

In this guide:

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

How to play Connections

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 deceptive red herring connections placed purely 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).

Connections hint for Tuesday 7th January

Here are your Connections hints for today:

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

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:

Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.

What is today’s Connections answer?

Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday, 7th January:

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A screenshot of the answers to today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday 7th January 2025.

Today’s Connections has more than a few potential traps and pitfalls, and I’m amazed that I didn’t fall into any of them myself. For starters, we have the word “Enough”, which has clear ties to the “A Handful Of” category, as well as being repeatable just like “A Deal” and “A Rose”. Evil!

I personally had to take this Connections puzzle quite slowly. I first discovered the “Book Subtitles” connection, but I wasn’t sure enough about it because I figured maybe “A life is a life” is a saying. So I left it at first, and took a slight gamble with the “A Handful Of” group. I figured “Enough” has aslightlydifferent meaning from the others.

That done, I put together the “Vocal Music” group fairly quickly (I thankfully remembered what a Madrigal was after a few moments of scratching my head), and then I was left with five possible entries for the “___ Is ___” group. But at that point I could already see the “Book Subtitles” grouping for the remaining three tiles, and managed to figure out the answer from there.

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!