The NYT Connections for today, January 20, 2025, can now be solved. The word game has been published in The New York Times since 2023 and is one of the most popular regular components of the newspaper. A player can solve Connections by correctly sorting a 16-word grid into four groups of four. Each of these groups represents a theme, and in turn, is represented by four colors — yellow, green, blue, and purple — denoting their difficulty levels. Yellow is the easiest to solve, while purple is the most difficult.

Here are the hints, clues, and answers for Connections for today, January 20.

Connections hint for January 20

The 16 words in today, January 20 edition of the word game are COOKIE, BEAR, SPINACH, SHOULDER, CROOK, ANCHOR, ELBOW, CHEAT, PIPE, HANDLE, BEND, FOREARM, FITTED, ANGLE, ASSUME, and BALANCE.

The hints for January 20 Connections are as follows:

Yellow Category

Accepting responsibilities

Green Category

Vehicles sometimes slide while moving through these areas.

Blue Category

They can be linked to a popular fictional character.

Purple Category

These are related to data or baking.

What are the Connections answers for today, January 20?

The following are the NYT Connections answers for today, January 20:

Yellow Category: Take on, as a responsibility

ASSUME, BEAR, HANDLE, and SHOULDER

Green Category: Corners

ANGLE, BEND, CROOK, and ELBOW.

Blue Category: Associated with Popeye

ANCHOR, FOREARM, PIPE, and SPINACH.

Purple Category: __ sheet

BALANCE, CHEAT, COOKIE, and FITTED.

When we started working on today’s Connections, we made a mistake in our first attempt trying to put ELBOW, FOREARM, and SHOULDER in the same group and were unable to find the fourth letter. We tried with CROOK but were proven wrong. Things took a turn for the better after we realized that one of the Connections was something related to corners. After the Green Category was solved, it was pretty easy to figure out the Yellow and Blue ones, leaving the remaining four words for the Purple Category.