NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, December 21 (game #924)

Good morning! Let's play Connections, a smart NYT word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. This can be complicated, so read on if you need some tips on Connections.

NYT Connections Today (Game #924) – Clue #1 – Group Clue

What are some tips for today's NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: Kettle components
BLUE: Exit
GREEN: Reading
VIOLET: Add missing word

Need more tips?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four answers to today's NYT Connections mystery themes are…

NYT Connections Today (Game #924) – Answers

NYT Connections answers to game 924 on purple background — (Image credit: New York Times)

Answers for today's Connections game, game #924:…

YELLOW: KETTLE FEATURES HANDLE, COVER, SPOUT, FILTER
BLUE: RECOVERY APPEARANCE, FLOW, PROBLEM, RESULT
GREEN: LIBRARY SECTIONS. CIRCULATIONS, PERIODICS, LINKS, STOP
PURPLE: ____DROP AIR, CRAINTS, DEZINS, RAIN

My rating: Hard
My rating: 2 errors

Nursery rhyme I'm a little teapot helped me get two out of today's yellow group and that was enough to seal the deal.

My difficulties began in the group that became ARISE, when I tried to combine all four groups, including AIR and RAIN, before I finally narrowed it down.

STACKS were a confusing element of LIBRARY SECTIONS, a term I hadn't heard of before, but the last time I visited a library was in the 2010s, so it's more my ignorance than some obscure phrase.

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. You'll find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is often quite hard, and purple is usually very hard.

On the other hand, you technically don't need to solve the last question since you can answer it by process of elimination. Moreover, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.

However, it's a bit more complex than something like Wordle, and the game has plenty of opportunities to confuse you with tricks. For example, beware of homophones and other word games that can disguise answers.