Today’s Tips, NYT Connections Answers for December 27, #565

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The New York Times Links Puzzle today wasn’t too hard, but the purple category has one of my favorite tricks with weird words. Here’s a hint: some last names have other meanings, so they can fool you into not being names. Read on for today’s Connections tips and answers.

There’s news in the Connections world, too. The Times now has a Connections Botlike the one that has been around for a while for Wordle. Go there after playing to get a numerical score and have the program analyze your answers. And players who are registered in the Times Games section can now geek out by following their progressincluding number of puzzles completed, win percentage, number of times they achieved a perfect score and their winning streak.

Read more: Tips, advice and strategies to help you win at NYT Connections every time

Tips for today’s Connections groups

Here are four tips for grouping in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest, yellow group, to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.

Yellow Group Tip: Dinner standards.

Green Group Tip: Smash that like button, say You Tubers.

Blue Group Tip: The rhino has one.

Purple Group Tip: I would like to thank the Academy.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow Group Tip: Breakfast pages.

Green Group Tip: Pushes, like a button.

Blue Group Tip: They have a horn.

Purple Group Tip: Oscar winning actors.

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here are the most popular letters used in English words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s links

The topic is side dishes for breakfast. The four answers are bacon, grits, hash, and toast.

The green words in today’s relationships

The theme is clicks, like a button. The four responses are clicks, hits, presses, and taps.

The blue words in today’s relationships

The theme is that they have a horn. The four answers are Africa, bugler, car and unicorn.

Purple words in today’s relationships

The subject is Oscar-winning actors. The four answers are Bridges, Irons, Phoenix and Washington.