NEW ‘Connections’ hints and answers for Wednesday 25th December

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ForbesNEW ‘Connections’ hints and answers for Tuesday 24th DecemberBy Chris Holt

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy holidays! If I knew how (and was also allowed to edit stock photos to use here), I would have photoshopped little pixie hats onto the pins in the top photo.

I raise a glass to you, your family and friends today. Here’s to good health and good times with the people who mean the most to us.

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It’s also the best way to give me feedback on the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions when I screw something up.

Today’s NEW Connections advice and answers for Wednesday 25 December will come straight up.

How Connections plays

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on NEW website or game app.

You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by finding out the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names of research study participants, or words with a body part in front.

There is only one solution to each puzzle and you have to be careful when it comes to words that can fit into more than one category. You can mix up the words to perhaps help you see connections between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the hardest. The purple group often involves puns.

Choose four words that you think fit together and press send. If you guess and you’re wrong, you lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you may see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with some tips and if you’re really struggling, today’s is Connections answer. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chat.

If you have one NEW Free access or Play subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections file. This includes all previous games of Connectionsso you can go back and play any of them you missed.

Apart from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my tips for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What’s today’s hookup tip?

Roll slowly! Right after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I will reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you what words are included in them.

Today’s 16 words are…

  • QUEEN
  • STAR
  • CUPID
  • STRONG
  • RUDOLPH
  • SAGITTARIUS
  • NANNY
  • COMET
  • THE VIXEN
  • MOON
  • ROBIN HOOD
  • SHANNON
  • HAWKEYE
  • FEY
  • JENNY
  • PLANET

And hints for today Connections groups are:

  • Yellow group – they are mostly out of this world
  • Green group – Katniss, Merida and Rambo would fit in here
  • Blue Group –
  • Purple group – familiar faces to NBC evening viewers

What are today’s connection groups?

Do you need extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to come in spoiler territory.

Today’s Connections groups are…

  • Yellow group — celestial bodies
  • Green group — archers
  • Blue group — female animals
  • purple group – SNL contributor

What are today’s connections answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll down the page any further until you’re ready to find out about today Connections answer.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections the answers are…

  • Yellow group — celestial bodies (COMET, MOON, PLANET, STAR)
  • Green Group — Archer (CUPID, HAWKEYE, ROBIN HOOD, SAGITTARIUS)
  • Blue Group — Females (JENNY, NANNY, QUEEN, VIXEN)
  • purple group – SNL cast (FEY, RUDOLPH, SHANNON, STRONG)

Neato, I have a perfect game. That brings me to three wins in a row. Here’s how I managed:

Here was a timely red herring of the names of Santa’s reindeer: Cupid, RUDOLPH, KOMET and VIXEN. But as soon as I saw ROBIN HOOD and HAWKEYE, it was clear that there would be a group of archers.

(Tina) FEY and (Maya) RUDOLPH suggested to me that there would be a group of Saturday Night Live alumni, but other than (Molly) SHANNON, I wasn’t quite sure what else would fit. It took me a moment to realize that the missing piece of the puzzle was Cecily STRONG.

I could clearly see the celestial bodies and I assumed they were the yellow ones so I sent the blue ones first. I didn’t make that connection though.

A JENNY is a female donkey, a NANNY is a male goat, a QUEEN is a female cat (or a QUEEN bee) and a VIXEN is a female fox.

That’s all there is to it for today Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for tips and the fix for Thursday’s game if you need them.

PS Since it’s Christmas Day, let’s take the very best Christmas movie: Die Hard. It’s very much not one for kids, but it’s a great thriller that has plenty of holiday spirit. Yippee ki-yay, actually:

Have a nice day! Make sure to drink enough water! Call someone you love!

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