Today’s NYT Connections tips and answers for Sunday, December 8

Are you looking for a clue that will assist you with today’s December 8 Connections puzzle? Hang in there, we’ve got all the tips you could ever need to solve today’s word puzzle.

Connections is a word puzzle published daily by the New York Times (NYT), host of the wildly popular Wordle Puzzle. Created daily by puzzle creator Wyna Liu, Connections presents a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words that you must group into four sets of four words, with each group of four words sharing a common theme.

It’s a straightforward premise, but as many of us here know, Connections can be devilishly hard at times, filled to the brim with red herrings, misleading words, and little-known tidbits. If you’re having trouble solving today’s Connection puzzle, this guide will assist you find the answers for Sunday, December 8, 2024.

Below we present some carefully crafted tips and tricks for today’s Connections, then reveal the four different groups, and finally the Connections answer themselves for those who are tired of wondering how it all fits together.

In this guide:

Connection tips for Sunday, December 8

Here’s a hint for each group of words in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a few other Connections clues to assist you find the answer.

Our calling tips today are:

• Yellow (easiest): Blow someone down.
• Green (straightforward): Words used when you are trying to lump something into something else.
• Blue (medium): Animals, but in fact they are also conglomerates.
• Purple (hardest): All these words sound like certain types of music.
• Bonus tip 1: The snail and the caterpillar belong to different groups.
• Bonus tip 2: Indy and Mettle are in the same group.

If you’re looking for more Connections tips today to assist narrow down your answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word from each group:

Yellow (easiest):

Belt

Green (straightforward):

Wedge

Blue (medium):

Pigeon

Purple (hardest):

Seoul

What are today’s Connections words?

Here are 16 connection words for today:

What are today’s Connections groups like?

If you need even more guidance to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connection groups – the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections grid together.

Here are today’s Connections groups:

• Punch
• Cram
• Companies named after animals
• Homophones of musical genres

Now that you know the reasoning behind the different connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check out the full answer below.

Spoiler alert! The answer to today’s Connections offer is before us!

What are today’s answers on Connections?

Here are the full answers to today’s Connection puzzle on Sunday, December 8:

• Punch: Belt, Blow, Sock, Snail
• Cram: Sandwich, shoe horn, bench press, wedge
• Companies named after animals: Caterpillar, pigeon, greyhound, puma
• Homophones of musical genres: Indy, Mettle, Seoul, Wrap

These groups of words, as always, confused me. Homophones of musical genres! I saw “Indy” and kept thinking that there was some secret Indiana Jones connection between all those words. Unfortunately, I was really far away.

Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections question correctly, with or without the assist of our helpful tips above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a novel Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle.

What is Connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owner of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words having a common theme.

For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Let’s take another example: “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go” and “Stick” are words that usually appear right before the word “Figure”.

Your job is to guess what themes connect the different words together – but be careful because most of the time red herrings are deliberately placed there to confuse you! To win the game you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. On the fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in the daily Connection puzzle is also assigned a different color to represent how straightforward or hard it is to find the Connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (straightforward), blue (medium), and purple (hardest).

This concludes today’s guide to solving the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for assist with Wordle, we’ve prepared a list of previous Wordle answers, as well as a Wordle tip and answer for Saturday, December 7. You can also check out our list of the best starting words for Wordle or operate our Wordle Solver tool to assist you find the answer with ease!