Today’s NYT Connection Tips, Answers for January 4, #573

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Oh purple category, how you love to throw players curve balls. You need to be very familiar with a certain painting to get that category. It is a very famous painting, but even this could be a day of struggle for some. 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 by following their progressincluding the number of puzzles completed, win rate, 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

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: Peel.

Green group advice: Connect together.

Blue group tip: Done!

Purple group advice: Famous surrealist painting.

Answers for today’s connection groups

yellow group: Crush into a compact form.

Green group: Fixings.

blue group: Mark as finished.

purple group: Represented in Dali’s Persistence of Memory.

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are the answers from Connections today?

Yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is crushed in a compact form. The four answers are ball, crumple, scrunch and wad.

The green words in today’s Connections

The topic is fasteners. The four answers are buckle, clip, hook and snap.

Blue words in today’s Connections

The topic is marked as complete. The four answers are check, cross, strike and tick.

Purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is depicted in Dali’s The Persistence of Memory. The four answers are ant, branch, clock and melting.