Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers – Monday, December 29, 2025

Struggling with today’s Connections puzzle (#931)? Our guide has hints, clues, and full answers to help you solve it.

How to Play Connections

Connections, an everyday puzzle that is very liked by the New York Times, tests the capability of the participants to classify 16 different words into four categories of four words each. Every group has a common theme, but there are some words that are non-literal meanings which are intended to mislead. You have to discover all four groups without committing four mistakes, or the puzzle will automatically show the answer.

Each group has a color-coded difficulty:

Yellow: Easiest
Green: Easy
Blue: Medium
Purple: Hardest

Today’s Words – December 29

Hints for Today’s Puzzle

Yellow: Think of a development.
Green: Biology.
Blue: Sports.
Purple: Hidden cars.

Extra hints:

Every theme except purple contains a word starting with “T”.
“Infinity” and “Gene” are in different groups.

One word from each group to get started:

Yellow: Trend
Green: Gene
Blue: Swimming
Purple: Minnie

Connections Groups – December 29

Yellow – Tendency: Course, Direction, Tide, Trend
Green – Biological Structures: Cell, Gene, Protein, Tissue
Blue – Summer Olympic Events: Athletics, Equestrian, Swimming, Triathlon
Purple – Car Brand Homophones: Infinity, Minnie, Opal, Outie

Full Answers

For those looking for the complete solution, today’s Connections puzzle groups the words as follows:

Yellow (Tendency): Course, Direction, Tide, Trend
Green (Biological Structures): Cell, Gene, Protein, Tissue
Blue (Summer Olympic Events): Athletics, Equestrian, Swimming, Triathlon
Purple (Car Brand Homophones): Infinity, Minnie, Opal, Outie

Homophone and themed puzzles like today’s can be tricky, especially the purple group. But the other themes – biology, sports, and tendencies – are easier to spot for most players.

A new Connections puzzle is released daily at midnight, so even if you missed today’s, you can try again tomorrow!

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