Today’s Tips, NYT Connections Answers for January 14, #583

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Oh, that purple category in NYT Connections. Today, it’s one of those subjects that people either love because of the challenge or hate because it’s damn healthy. Think of something that flies, and then think of ways to change the words that describe these different varieties. Read on for today’s Connections tips and answers.

The Times now has a Connections Botlike the one 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: Up and up.

Green Group Tip: Fixed time.

Blue Group Tip: Nikon, Minolta, etc.

Purple Group Tip: Tweet-Tweet.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Operative.

Green Group: Term.

Blue Group: Things in a camera kit.

Purple group: Bird plus letter.

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 active. The four answers are active, functional, working, and working.

The green words in today’s relationships

The subject is a term. The four answers are meeting, period, session and meeting.

The blue words in today’s relationships

The topic is things in a camera kit. The four answers are body, flash, lens and strap.

Purple words in today’s relationships

The theme is a bird plus a letter. The four answers are crowd, gully, puffing and swank. (Crow, seagull, puffin and swan.)