{"id":1210548,"date":"2023-12-10T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T02:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1210548"},"modified":"2023-12-10T21:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T02:00:48","slug":"todays-nyt-connections-hints-and-answer-for-monday-december-11-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1210548","title":{"rendered":"Today&#039;s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Monday, December 11, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re looking for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/games\/connections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">Connections<\/a> answer for Monday, December 11, 2023, read on\u2014I\u2019ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, I\u2019ll explain the meanings of the trickier words and we\u2019ll learn how everything fits together. <strong>Beware, there are spoilers below for December 11, NYT Connections #183! <\/strong>Read on if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today\u2019s Connections game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day, <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/entertainment\/connections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>bookmark this page<\/u><\/a>. You can also find our past hints there as well, in case you want to know what you missed in a previous puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Below, I\u2019ll give you some oblique hints at today\u2019s Connections answers. And farther down the page, I\u2019ll reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!<\/p>\n<div class=\"eloquent-imagery-image\">\n<div class=\"flex justify-center\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border border-gray-100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/images-1.fill_.size_2000x1138.v1701873792.jpg\" alt=\"NYT Connections board for December 11, 2023: SILK, BLOW, LACE, LAND, SOLE, BABY, VELVET, TONGUE, PERCH, PACKAGE, SETTLE, SPEECH, SATIN, EYELET, ROOST, CHIFFON.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1138\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-2\">\n                            <span class=\"mt-2 font-akshar text-sm tracking-wide\" \/><br \/>\n                                        <span class=\"text-xs inline-block text-gray-600\">Credit: Connections\/NYT<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Does today\u2019s Connections game require any special knowledge?<\/h2>\n<p>If you know fashion or sewing, you\u2019ll pick out one of the categories pretty easily.<\/p>\n<h2>Hints for the themes in today\u2019s Connections puzzle<\/h2>\n<p>Here are some spoiler-free hints for the groupings in today\u2019s Connections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Yellow category &#8211; Sewing material.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Green category &#8211; Alighting on a branch.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Blue category &#8211; Put on your shoes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Purple category &#8211; Other entries for this category could be \u201cpizza\u201d or \u201cme from evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Does today\u2019s Connections game involve any wordplay?<\/h2>\n<p>The purple category is on the trickier side. It\u2019s not exactly a fill-in-the-blank, but sort of along those lines\u2013the words are all part of similar phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Ready to hear the answers? Keep scrolling if you want a little more help.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>BEWARE: Spoilers follow for today\u2019s Connections puzzle!<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re about to give away some of the answers. Scroll slowly if you don\u2019t want the whole thing spoiled. (The full solution is a bit further down.)<\/p>\n<h3>What are the ambiguous words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>An EYELET is a small hole in fabric. LACE can be made of EYELETs, but the holes that your shoe LACEs go through are also called EYELETs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>You use your TONGUE for SPEECH, but those words are not in the same category today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>SOLE and PERCH are both fish, but there are no fish in the puzzle today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>CHIFFON can refer to a pie with a light, fluffy texture, but it\u2019s named after a sheer SILK fabric used in dresses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>To ROOST is to rest on a branch or in a henhouse; hence the word ROOSTer. (Which seems to have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/rooster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\"><u>invented in the 1800s so people wouldn\u2019t have to say \u201ccock.\u201d<\/u><\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Speaking of words that might not be polite to say, BLOW does not refer here to sex or drugs. A BLOW can be a punch or a kick.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mt-8 w-full max-w-4xl\">\n<div id=\"video-container-gZ4Z0ijuHdc&#xA0;\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<h3>What are the categories in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Yellow: LUXURIOUS FABRICS<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Green: COME DOWN TO REST<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Blue: SHOE PARTS<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Purple: THINGS THAT ARE DELIVERED<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>DOUBLE BEWARE: THE SOLUTION IS BELOW<\/h2>\n<p>Ready to learn the answers to today\u2019s Connections puzzle? I give them all away below.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the yellow words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<p>The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward. The theme for today\u2019s yellow group is LUXURIOUS FABRICS and the words are: CHIFFON, SATIN, SILK, VELVET.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the green words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<p>The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest. The theme for today\u2019s green category is COME DOWN TO REST and the words are: PERCH, ROOST, SETTLE, LAND.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the blue words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<p>The blue grouping is the second-hardest. The theme for today\u2019s blue category is SHOE PARTS and the words are: EYELET, LACE, SOLE, TONGUE.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the purple words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<p>The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest. The theme for today\u2019s purple category is THINGS THAT ARE DELIVERED and the words are: BABY, BLOW, PACKAGE, SPEECH.<\/p>\n<h2>How I solved today\u2019s Connections<\/h2>\n<p>First I consider the fancy fabrics: SILK, CHIFFON, LACE, EYELET, and a few others. Then I wonder if SOLE and PERCH are meant to be fish. Finally I see the sneaker parts: LACE, EYELET, SOLE, and TONGUE. \ud83d\udfe6<\/p>\n<p>The fabrics, then, are SILK, SATIN, VELVET, and CHIFFON. \ud83d\udfe8 (Satin, velvet, and chiffon were all originally made from silk, by the way.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now we have ways of coming to rest, as a bird does when alighting on a branch: ROOST, SETTLE, LAND, PERCH. \ud83d\udfe9\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What are we left with? Things that are delivered. You deliver a BABY (OK), a PACKAGE (sure), a SPEECH (I\u2019ll allow it), and \u2026a BLOW? Oh! In the sense of a punch or kick. Yes, of course, that\u2019s what I was thinking. \ud83d\udfea<\/p>\n<pre class=\"back border-2 border-gray-400 bg-gray-100 p-4 text-black shadow-md\">Connections \nPuzzle #183\n\ud83d\udfe6\ud83d\udfe6\ud83d\udfe6\ud83d\udfe6\n\ud83d\udfe8\ud83d\udfe8\ud83d\udfe8\ud83d\udfe8\n\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\n\ud83d\udfea\ud83d\udfea\ud83d\udfea\ud83d\udfea<\/pre>\n<h2>How to play Connections<\/h2>\n<p>I have a full <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/try-connections-if-you-re-bored-with-wordle-1850534478?rev=1693236802678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>guide to playing Connections<\/u><\/a>, but here\u2019s a refresher on the rules:<\/p>\n<p>First, find the Connections game either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/games\/connections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">on the New York Times website<\/a> or in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/crosswords\/apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">Crossword app<\/a>. You\u2019ll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase. Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common. Often they are all the same type of thing (for example: RAIN, SLEET, HAIL, and SNOW are all types of wet weather) but sometimes there is wordplay involved (for example, BUCKET, GUEST, TOP TEN, and WISH are all types of <em>lists<\/em>: bucket list, guest list, and so on).<\/p>\n<p>Select four items and hit the Submit button. If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed. (Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.) If your guess was incorrect, you\u2019ll get a chance to try again.<\/p>\n<p>You win when you\u2019ve correctly identified all four groups. But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.<\/p>\n<h2>How to win Connections<\/h2>\n<p>The most important thing to know to win Connections is that the groupings are designed to be tricky. Expect to see overlapping groups. For example, one puzzle seemed to include six breakfast foods: BACON, EGG, PANCAKE, OMELET, WAFFLE, and CEREAL. But BACON turned out to be part of a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francis-bacon.com\/paintings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">painters<\/a> along with CLOSE, MUNCH, and WHISTLER, and EGG was in a group of things that come by the dozen (along with JUROR, ROSE, and MONTH). So don\u2019t hit \u201csubmit\u201d until you\u2019ve confirmed that your group of four contains <em>only<\/em> those four things.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to have <em>no<\/em> connection to the others. If all that comes to mind when you see WHISTLER is the painting nicknamed <a href=\"https:\/\/philamuseum.org\/calendar\/exhibition\/the-artists-mother-whistler-philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">\u201cWhistler\u2019s Mother,\u201d<\/a> you might be on to something. When I solved that one, I ended up googling whether there was a painter named Close, because Close didn\u2019t fit any of the obvious themes, either.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to win when you\u2019re stuck is, obviously, to read a few helpful hints\u2013which is why we share these pointers every day. Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LifeHacker &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/entertainment\/nyt-connections-answer-today-december-11-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Today&#8217;s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Monday, December 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re looking for the Connections answer for Monday, December 11, 2023, read on\u2014I\u2019ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. 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