Interested players can now solve the NYT Connections for today, January 17. The word game debuted in The New York Times in June 2023 and has since become one of the most successful puzzles of the publication. To solve the game, a player must categorize 16 words into the correct four groups, each containing four words. These categories represent the common themes between those four words, and that can be a wide array of things — from homophones to portmanteaus to real words made jibberish with an extra letter.
Here are hints, clues, and answers for the NYT Connections for today, January 17.
Connections hint for January 17
The 16 words in today, January 17 edition of the game are HIT, OPERA, BANGER, ROSEBUD, PEPPERONI, BOP, EDGE, LINK, TAP, CONTRABASS, BRAT, SAFARI, AUTOHARP, CHROME, KNOCK, and SAUSAGE.
The hints for January 17 Connections are as follows:
Yellow Category
A cylindrical food item made of meat and spices.
Green Category
One thing smashing into another.
Blue Category
Key components of being online and surfing the internet
Purple Category
After-hours beverages.
What are the Connections answers for today, January 17?
The following are the NYT Connections answers for today, January 17:
Yellow Category: Frankfurter
BANGER, BRAT, LINK, and SAUSAGE.
Green Category: Strike
BOP, HIT, KNOCK, and TAP.
Blue Category: Web Browsers
CHROME, EDGE, OPERA, and SAFARI.
Purple Category: Ending with beer brands
AUTOHARP, CONTRABASS, PEPPERONI, and ROSEBUD.
In the NYT Connections, four colors — yellow, green, blue, and purple — denote the categories and their difficulty levels, with yellow being the simplest and purple the hardest. However, ironically, we solved the Purple Category first today, followed by Green and Blue, with the remaining words fitting into the Yellow Category. Today’s puzzle was quite easy in comparison to the last few days. The Connections were relatively obvious. There were doubts about whether SAUSAGE needed to be grouped with PEPPERONI, but we found the right combination for PEPPERONI before trying that.
