The New York Times’ Connections puzzle has emerged as one of the platform’s most popular word games, challenging players to identify shared themes among 16 daily words. Created with assistance from associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu, the game requires players to organize words into four distinct categories, with each grouping removed from the board upon correct completion. The puzzle resets daily and grows increasingly challenging, appealing particularly to younger demographics.
Today’s Connections #1174 presents four thematic categories for players to decode. The yellow tier, designed as the most accessible, focuses on traditional bedtime expressions. Green-level words share a structural characteristic, while the blue category explores contemporary linguistic trends. The purple tier, considered most difficult, requires identifying a specific phrase pattern that connects its four words.
For those seeking guidance, clues suggest contemplating nighttime farewells for the yellow category, considering words that read identically forwards and backwards for green, thinking about modern prefixes and suffixes for blue, and completing a common phrase for purple. Players can shuffle the board layout and receive up to four incorrect guesses before the game concludes, with results shareable across social media platforms.
The solution reveals bedtime greetings, mirror-image words, contemporary language modifiers, and phrases beginning with “top of the” as today’s four groupings. Like its predecessor Wordle, Connections remains accessible across web browsers and mobile devices.
Originally reported by Mashable →
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