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Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers.

And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers.

NYT Connections board for January 12, 2024: READ, SHOCK, POINT, WHEEL, SUBJECT, BLEW, DASH, STAGE, PERIOD, MATTER, CHAPTER, ROWS, TANK, ISSUE, PHASE, CHORAL.

Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!

Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?

Green category - The time of your life.

Blue category - Part of your ride.

Purple category - Sounds like a box of paints, in a way.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

Yes, there is a category based on soundalikes.

Ready to hear the answers?

Keep scrolling if you want a little more help.

BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!

Were about to give away some of the answers.

Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled.

(The full solution is a bit further down.)

What are the ambiguous words in todays Connections?

BLEW is, strangely, the only past-tense verb on todays board.

Take this as a hint that its not related to blowing at all.

A CHAPTER can be a part of a book, or a PERIOD of your life.

Yellow: TOPIC OF DISCUSSION

Green: SECTION OF ONES LIFE

Blue: PARTS OF A CAR, INFORMALLY.

I give them all away below.

What are the yellow words in todays Connections?

The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward.

What are the green words in todays Connections?

The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest.

What are the blue words in todays Connections?

The blue grouping is the second-hardest.

The theme for todays blue category is PARTS OF A CAR, INFORMALLY.

and the words are: DASH, SHOCK, TANK, WHEEL.

What are the purple words in todays Connections?

The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.

I got the SUBJECTs of discussion first, and then the PHASEs of life.

The car parts were obvious after that.

Youll 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.

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, youll get a chance to take another crack.

You win when youve correctly identified all four groups.

But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.

Expect to see overlapping groups.

So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four containsonlythose four things.

If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to havenoconnection to the others.

Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!