Today’s NYT Connection Tips, Answers for January 1, #570

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Way to start the year, New York Times puzzle makers. I found it today The New York Times Connection Puzzle kind of hard. Did you struggle at all today? Read on for today’s Connections tips and answers.

The Times now has a Connect Botlike the one for Wordle. Go here after playing to receive a numerical score and have the program analyze your answers. And players who are registered with the Times Games section they can now nerd out following their progressincluding the number of puzzles completed, the win rate, the number of times they got a perfect score and their winning streak.

Read more: Tips, Advice and Strategies to help you win at NYT Connections every time

How to play Connections

Playing is easy. Victory is hard. Look at the 16 words and mentally assign them to groups of four. Click on the four words that you think go together. The groups are color coded, although you won’t know what goes where until you see the answers. The yellow group is the easiest, then green, then blue, and purple is the hardest. Look carefully at the words and think of related terms. Sometimes the connection has to do with only part of the word. Once, four words were grouped together because they each started with the name of a rock band, including “Rushmore” and “Journeyman.”

Read more: The new NYT Connect game for sports fans lets players swing for the fences

Suggestions for today’s Connections groups

Here are four suggestions for groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the hard (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group tip: Slippery and slippery critters.

Green group advice: Brilliant stuff.

Blue group tip: Pictures of the Netherlands.

Purple group tip: going down

Answers for today’s connection groups

yellow group: Slimy animals.

Green group: Things that glow.

Blue group: Dutch symbols.

Violet Group: End with synonyms for plonge.

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What are the answers from Connections today?

Yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is slimy animals. The four answers are earthworm, eel, salamander and slug.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is the things that light up. The four answers are aurora, firefly, glowstick and radium.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is Dutch symbols. The four answers are the canal, the clog, the tulip and the mill.

Purple words in today’s Connections

The topic is finished with synonyms for plonge. The four answers are gatecrash, raindrop, skydive and waterfall.