Hints And Answers For Thursday, February 6

Looking for Wednesday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:

ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Today: Hints And Answers For Wednesday, February 5By Kris Holt

Hey there, gang! I hope you’re having a great week (or at least that it’s good as can be).

I think at this point I am ready for winter to be over. I don’t spend too much time outside during these months. The conveniences of modern life have made it such that I have just about everything I need very close at hand, and I can easily order just about anything else. That’s one of the extremely handy things about living in a major city during the Canadian winter.

But right now I’d really like to go for a nice walk in a park that’s full of greenery in moderate temperatures, y’know? I’ll be able to do that soon enough, I suppose. It really is true that time seems to pass much faster the older you get.

Before we begin, I’ve set up a discussion group for Connections and this column on Discord. You can chat about each game (and other topics) with me and other folks. I’m always interested to find out how other people approach the game, so join us! It’s fun.

It’s also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions that I mess something up.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, February 6, are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are…

• GREAT
• LAMP
• DIZZY
• GIRAFFE
• COUNT
• LIGHT
• NOBLE
• FAINT
• GUITAR
• DUKE
• CAB
• GRAND
• SOFT
• BOTTLE
• LOFTY
• MILD

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• Yellow group — fragile
• Green group — high and mighty
• Blue group — having a hard one of these means you’re audacious
• Purple group — cool cats, man

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s Connections groups are…

• Yellow group — delicate
• Green group — magnanimous
• Blue group — things with necks
• Purple group — first names in jazz

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are…

• Yellow group — delicate (FAINT, LIGHT, MILD, SOFT)
• Green group — magnanimous (GRAND, GREAT, LOFTY, NOBLE)
• Blue group — things with necks (BOTTLE, GIRAFFE, GUITAR, LAMP)
• Purple group — first names in jazz (CAB, COUNT, DIZZY, DUKE)

After 23 straight wins, my streak is over. Here’s how I fared:

🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟪🟪🟦
🟪🟪🟦🟪
🟪🟦🟦🟪

A few different options came to mind here, not least GUITAR and GIRAFFE as references to The Last of Us (I think far more about those games than I care to admit). I got the greens first, even though I was wary of NOBLE, COUNT and DUKE possibly being part of the same group.

A guess of SOFT, LIGHT, FAINT and DIZZY then left me one away from another group. Swapping out the latter for MILD did the trick for the yellows.

I then figured GUITAR, DUKE and DIZZY(?) might be David Bowie references, but I couldn’t see what would go with them. I really didn’t know where to go from there. One random guess left me with nothing, but GUITAR, DUKE, DIZZY and COUNT put me one away from a group. I swapped COUNT for GIRAFFE, but no dice.

I should have figured out the blues at least. The purples refer to CAB Calloway, COUNT Basie, DIZZY Gillespie and DUKE Ellington (not Duke Silver, as I momentarily suspected). I had no chance there. Dizzy Gillespie was the only one I was familiar with.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Friday’s game if you need them.

P.S. Since I mentioned him in my thought process breakdown/explanation, I have to go with a David Bowie song for today’s recommendation. There are so, so many to choose from. I’ve used “Modern Love” before, so I won’t go with that again. I’m in the mood for some rock and roll Bowie, so “Suffragette City” it is! What a cracking song:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!

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