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NYT Connections hint and answers for Wednesday, 8th JanNeed some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #576.
Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #576.
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT
This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January!
If you want a little bit of extra help to keep your Connections win streak going, you’ve come to the right place. Below we’ll give you a handy Connections hint for each of the four groups, along with a couple of extra hints to boot. Further down you can also choose to reveal a word from each group, the groups themselves, and finally the full answer to today’s puzzle if you’re truly stuck.
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 Wednesday 8th 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 Wednesday, 8th January:
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on 8th January 2025. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT
The other groups are much simpler, thankfully. Trunk and Tusk were enough to get me thinking of elephants, and while it’s true that the vast majority of elephants do have at least one limb, I could also see that “Limb” would fit with “Branch”, “Division”, and “Wing” much more neatly.
With two groups down, I was a bit confused for a while, but finally decided to try the musical accessories link, because that was the only thing that made sense to me. I just had to assume that the other four words grouped together in some way I didn’t understand.
If you’re as confused as me, I looked it up afterwards:
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!
