NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, December 16 (game #919)

Date:
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Description:
Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each
day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers
for Monday, December 15 (game #918) .

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #919) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are POSTERITY BELLHOP LIFEBOAT OFFSPRING SPELLBOUND FOXTROT RATTLESNAKE MAMBO CHIMERA ROPE BOLERO DRUMROLL BROOD QUICKSTEP FAMILY SUSPICION NYT Connections today (game #919) - hint #1 -
group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Move to the music GREEN: Relations BLUE: Films by Alfred PURPLE: Rhythm starters

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT
Connections today (game #919) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: DANCES
GREEN: DESCENDANTS BLUE: HITCHCOCK MOVIES PURPLE: STARTING WITH PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #919) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #919, are YELLOW: DANCES BOLERO, FOXTROT, MAMBO, QUICKSTEP GREEN: DESCENDANTS BROOD, FAMILY, OFFSPRING, POSTERITY BLUE: HITCHCOCK MOVIES LIFEBOAT, ROPE, SPELLBOUND, SUSPICION
PURPLE: STARTING WITH PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS BELLHOP, CHIMERA, DRUMROLL, RATTLESNAKE My rating: Easy My score: Perfect

It's always a thrill to get the purple group early, but before that the
simple yellow group DANCES was hard to ignore.

After seeing no other links to the mythical creature CHIMERA I decided that the connection must be to do with the word itself rather than its meaning, so chime, bell, drum and rattle all seemed linked and so it proved.

The final eight gave me a slight pause as I could see that SPELLBOUND, SUSPICION and ROPE were all HITCHCOCK MOVIES but only guessed LIFEBOAT as it seemed the most likely. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, December 15, game #918) YELLOW: TOURNAMENT ROUNDS FINAL, QUALIFIER, QUARTER, SEMI GREEN: ENORMOUS BUMPER, GIANT, MONSTER, TITANIC BLUE: DISREPUTABLE ESTABLISHMENT DIVE, DUMP, HOLE, JOINT PURPLE: WHAT "C" MIGHT MEAN CELSIUS, COLD, ONE HUNDRED, SEE What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green
is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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