NEW Connections Today — My Tips and Answers for Saturday, December 21st (Game #559)

On December 21, 2024By Littum

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need clues.

What are you going to do when you’re done? Why, play some more puns of course. I also have daily Strands Hints and Answers and Quordle Hints and Answers articles if you need help with those too, while Marc’s Wordle Today page covers the original viral pun.

SPOILER ALERT: Today’s NYT Connections information is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

NEW Connections today (game #559) – word of the day

NEW Connections tip for game 559 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NEW Connections word is…

BAND
SEAT
BALONY
FOREHEAD
BUNK
GRAY
CIRCLE
CANOPY
CROCK
ISLAND
STATUETTE
POT
RING
MURPHY
CASSEROLE
HOPE

NEW Connections today (game #559) – tip #1 – group tip

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: Circumference
GREEN: Baked off
BLUE: Sleepy?
PURPLE: What the Academy and Wilde have in common

Need more clues?

We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

NEW Connections today (game #559) – tip #2 – group answer

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: LOOP
GREEN: COOKING VESSEL
BLUE: KIND OF BEDS
PURPLE: THING CALLED “OSCAR”

Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NEW Connections today (game #559) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 559 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #559, are…

YELLOW: LOOP RIBBON, CIRCLE, RING
GREEN: COOKING VESSEL CASSEROLE, CROCK, PAN, POT
BLUE: KIND OF BEDS COOKIE, SLEEVE, MURPHY, SLEDGE
PURPLE: THING CALLED “OSCAR” BALONEY, GROUCH, O, STATUETTE

My rating: Moderate
My score: 1 error

Even though I only had eight words left, I was still struggling to find one of the last two groups of four today.

I knew BOW and CANOPY were beds, but could not think of what the other two might be, and used a mistake to guess O, which I thought might be what are called the great circular beds that people with huge houses and extensive collections of soft. toys can have. It isn’t. But I discovered that the American name for the ingenious beds that fold up against a wall is MURPHY.

Google “Murphy bed” and you’ll find that accidents or the fear of an accident is a big concern for owners and potential owners. It turns out their fears are unfounded – despite its slapstick reputation. A recent report that studied 24 years of injuries found that no deaths were caused by Murphy beds. Ceiling fans, on the other hand, cause approximately 25 deaths per year in the United States. Every day is a school day!

Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Friday, December 20, Game #558)

YELLOW: Intercourse COCKTAIL, COMPOUND, MIX, SOLUTION
GREEN: TYPES OF SENTENCES COMMAND, SHOUT, QUESTION, STATEMENT
BLUE: KIND OF BROS CRYPTO, FINANCE, PHARMA, TECHNICAL
PURPLE: COMPLAINT HOMOPHONES DRUNK, BEATEN, WHALE, WINE

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different degree of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough, and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the last one, as you’ll be able to answer it by a process of elimination. Also, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you play tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that can hide the answers.

It can be played for free via NYT Games website on desktop or mobile.