Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on December 22 for puzzle #925 are a smidge harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Today's Connections words are: Rush, Pin, Playing, Later, Greeting, Cya, Rash, Coming, Wave, Business, Future, Brow, Whit, Following, Membership, and Surge
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Influx
- 🟩 Green: Subsequent
- 🟦 Blue: Kinds of Cards
- 🟪 Purple: Colors minus last letter
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Here's a larger hint: Count the colorful cards that come in
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #925?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Influx: Rash, Rush, Surge, Wave
- 🟩 Subsequent: Coming, Following, Future, Later
- 🟦 Kinds of cards: Business, Greeting, Membership, Playing
- 🟪 Colors minus last letter: Brow, Cya, Pin, Whit
The first thing that caught my eye was Surge and Wave since they ended up close to each other. That sent me looking for other synonyms, and I found Rush and, after some confusion, Rash to round out yellow.
Cya didn't look like a word on its own, but it made me think of Cyan. That had me taking a second look at the remaining clues to see which ones could become colors if I added a letter at the end, and I found them with Brow, Pin, and Whit.
That left only the middle two categories. Green was once again a quartet of synonyms today with Coming, Following, Future, and Later.
Once I saw the four clues that were left (Business, Greeting, Membership, and Playing), the connection was so obvious I about smacked myself.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Features of a teapot: Handle, Lid, Spout, Strainer
- 🟩 Library sections: Circulation, Periodical, Reference, Stacks
- 🟦 Arise: Emerge, Flow, Issue, Result
- 🟪 ____ drop: Air, Eaves, Gum, Rain
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #924, which had a difficulty rating of 1.5 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
I spent more than my fair share of time in my local library growing up, so when I saw Circulation and Reference, only one thing came to mind. After searching around for a bit, I spotted Periodicals and Stacks to solve green.
After that I figured I had the easiest category on lock with Handle, Lid, Spout, and Strainer, which turned out to be the case.
I was scratching my head for a bit after that but then a few synonyms rose to the surface for blue: Emerge, Flow, Issue, and Result.
That left purple as today's rote fill with Air, Eaves, Gum, and Rain.
Connections tips — how to win at Connections
There are two ways to play Connections, get the answers as you solve them or solve for the hardest group, Purple, first.
For either playstyle, the best tip I can give is to not be afraid of the shuffle button, especially if you’ve solved a set but you’re certain it isn’t the Purple group. You can shuffle the grid until your solved quartet is in a somewhat staked off area.
For the purple group, you can expect to see a handful of category types: words missing a letter, homophones, words with specific suffixes or prefixes, and [blank] word (or word [blank]). There are others, but this is a majority of what you’ll see. It can help to look for purple connections through one of those lenses.
If you’re not hunting for purple specifically, then the best advice I have is to look for smaller connections. For example, Riddler and Joker are Batman villains. Once you’ve grouped that duo together it’s easier to find another set.
Finally, watch out for traps. Occasionally, the Connections makers like to throw in a set of words that should seem very obvious to most people. But picking them can give you a strike, something you want to save for when you aren’t really sure between a couple of clues.
The tricky bit is that sometimes the very obvious foursome is actually one of the answers (usually the yellow or green levels).
One way to work around this is to note the four clues you think are an obvious set. Highlight them by selecting the words but don’t hit submit. From there take a second look around the grid to see if anything else stands out to you.
Often these super obvious sets are actually individually spread out between the four groups. So, if you see Wick, Neo, Ted and Mnemonic, you might immediately think of Keanu Reeves movies, but it's a trick. Instead, use the individual words as launching points to discover other connections.
If you're new to the game you should also take a look at our How to play Connections guide.
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