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

EQUESTRIAN | TRIATHLON | SWIMMING | INFINITY
ATHLETICS | DIRECTION | CELL | COURSE
GENE | MINNIE | OPAL | OUTIE
PROTEIN | TIDE | TISSUE | TREND

Hints for Today’s Puzzle

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

Extra hints:

1. Every theme except purple contains a word starting with “T”.
2. “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!