Finding the connections in a game of Connections can be tricky, depending on how different the categories of a given day are from our vocabulary. If you need a nod in the right direction to find the answers, you've come to the right place.

The New York Times launched Connections in mid-2023, and the game has quickly become popular as a daily activity. Each day, the game presents sixteen different words in a 4×4 grid. Your goal is to find the eponymous connections between them. They’re divided into four categories, but you don’t know which categories these are when you start playing; you have to look at all the words and try to deduce yourself.

To guess, simply select the four words you think go together and click the Submit button. When you do, you will receive feedback from the game on whether it was a correct guess or cost you a "life." You are allowed up to three mistakes per day, and if you make a fourth mistake, you lose.

If you guess correctly, the selected words are removed from the "pool" and grouped together to reveal the name of their category. The four categories are color-coded yellow, green, blue, and purple, with yellow traditionally being the easiest and purple the trickiest.