NYT ‘Connections’ Today: Hints And Answers For Wednesday, January 29

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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!

Over in our little* discussion group on Discord (more on that in a second), a few folks have started sharing their results from Lingule, another daily word game. The idea with that one is to identify the language — or variant thereof — that a certain word stems from. It’s pretty enjoyable! I learn a little something from it. I think you might like it too.

*Not so little anymore. More than 500 of you have joined us in the two months or so it’s been up and running. Wowzers.

On that note, I’ve set up a discussion group for Connections and this column on Discord. You can chat about each game (and other topics) with me and other folks. I’m always interested to find out how other people approach the game, so join us! It’s fun.

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

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, January 29, are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

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

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links 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 most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll 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 the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints 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 Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

• WICKED
• GINGERBREAD
• FULL
• TALK
• POSSESSED
• VENOM
• ALIEN
• DROOL
• HAUNTED
• DREAM
• SNORE
• BORE
• HAD
• GLADIATOR
• WHITE
• HELD

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• Yellow group — it was all yours
• Green group — we do these perhaps a third of the time
• Blue group — the latest from Álvarez, Scott, Marcel and Chu
• Purple group — "fun" and "our" would fit in here

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s Connections groups are...

• Yellow group — owned
• Green group — things you might do in your sleep
• Blue group — movie series with 2024 releases
• Purple group — ____ house

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

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

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

• Yellow group — owned (BORE, HAD, HELD, POSSESSED)
• Green group — things you might do in your sleep (DREAM, DROOL, SNORE, TALK)
• Blue group — movie series with 2024 releases (ALIEN, GLADIATOR, VENOM, WICKED)
• Purple group — ____ house (FULL, GINGERBREAD, HAUNTED, WHITE)

A whopping 14 straight perfect games means my streak now sits at 17 games. Here's how I fared:

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An identical result to yesterday's, weirdly enough.

I wasn't sure if VENOM had received any Academy Award nominations in the technical categories, because Oscar-nominated movies was my first instinct for that, WICKED, GLADIATOR and ALIEN. But they're also all the first entries in franchises (especially if you consider WICKED as a prequel to The Wizard of Oz), so I was reasonably confident about bunching those together. My thought process wasn't quite right, but I'll take the blues.

The greens then jumped out at me. I don't remember my DREAMs very often but I have been told I talk in my sleep.

The HAUNTED and POSESSED red herring tripped me up for a while, until I realized the link between the former and GINGERBREAD that gave me the purple words. FULL house could be a reference to wither poker of the sitcom of the same name.

I figured out the yellow connection as well after mentally divorcing POSSESSED from HAUNTED and realized BORE probably didn't have anything to do with drilling.

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

P.S. I was tempted to recommend “Our House” by the brilliant Madness given today’s purple group, but no, I’ll stick with this week’s dance music theme.

But since we have some movies in the mix, let’s go with a tune from one of my favorite opening scenes of any film. I’ll never forget that bloodbath sequence in Blade, nor will I Pump Panel’s remix of "Confusion" by New Order:

In case you’re wondering, here’s the original song:

It’s so different!

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!

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