Good morning! Let’s play Connections, a clever NYT word game that challenges you to group your answers into different categories. This can be complex, so read on if you need some guidance with Connections.
What should you do once you’re done? Of course, play more word games. I also have daily Strands tips and answers and Quordle tips and answers articles if you need support with that too, and today’s Marc on Wordle page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s NYT Connections story is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #854) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- IT STARTS
- FAST
- DAYS
- RETURNS
- FOREVER
- END
- ROBIN
- TRAILS
- SWALLOW
- PIONEERS
- CONSTANT
- INSTITUTES
- ETERNAL
- KITE
- LAUNCHES
- ETERNAL
NYT Connections Today (Game #854) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some tips for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: It won’t disappear
- GREEN: At the beginning
- BLUE: Feathered friends
- PURPLE: Start with the opposite of “sad”
Need more tips?
We’re now in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know the four topical answers to today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
Today NYT Connections (Game #854) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the responses to today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FOREVER
- GREEN: BETTS
- BLUE: BIRDS
- PURPLE: HAPPY ____
Sure, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #854) – answers
The answers for today’s Connections game, #854, are…
- YELLOW: FOREVER ETERNAL, ETERNAL, ETERNAL, PERMANENT
- GREEN: BETTS BEGINNING, INSTITUTES, INTRODUCTION, PIONEERS
- BLUE: BIRDS KITE, ROBIN, SWALLOW, FAST
- PURPLE: HAPPY ____ DAYS, END, RETURN, TRAILS
- My rating: Easy
- My result: 1 error
I worked strenuous on this game where even the hardest purple group was quite effortless.
I hope I wasn’t the only nerd who put FOREVER, BEGINS, RETURNS and ETERNAL together thinking the connection was Batman. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case, but the error forced me to think again, more clearly.
SWIFT has appeared several times in bird groups and I always want to joke about being a swift because they really are the most amazing creatures.
Everything about them is extraordinary – like Taylor, they never stop moving, spending their entire lives on the wing, eating, sleeping and mating while flying. Well, that last one isn’t Taylor’s style. As far as we know.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Saturday, October 11, Game 853)
- YELLOW: EQUIPMENT EQUIPMENT, KIT, MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT
- GREEN: GET DRESSED NO, WEAR, SPORT, WEAR
- BLUE: STREET Suffixes AVENUE, YARD, LINE, ROAD
- PURPLE: Nicknames that have different meanings BILL, BOB, PAT, VOL
What are NYT calls?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. The task is to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is effortless, yellow is slightly more complex, blue is often quite complex, and purple is usually very complex.
The advantage is that you technically don’t have to solve the last one because you will be able to answer it by process of elimination. What’s more, you can make as many as four mistakes, which gives you some slack.
It’s a little more complicated than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to throw you into tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that can undiscovered answers.
You can play it for free via Enjoy the gaming site on your desktop computer or mobile phone.
