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Hints for Connections #210
Try these nudges before reading the discussion below. They point to the kinds of associations players noticed without pretending to be official category clues.
- Gentle nudge: Watch for words that can suggest more than one familiar idea.
- Closer direction: Community discussion singled out a tooth-related expression, the technology company Alphabet, and a use of “peach” meaning something excellent.
- Before revealing a solution: Decide whether a word is being used literally, as part of a phrase, or figuratively. The discussion does not establish the complete tile set or official groups, so these clues cannot reliably reconstruct an answer grid.
What players found tricky
“Eye tooth”
Players discussed the expression “eye tooth” and the possibility of taking “eye” as a clue to an eye examination. That illustrates the puzzle’s central trap: a word may fit a tempting association before the intended relationship becomes clear. The phrase appears in the community discussion, not as verified official category wording. Read the January 7, 2024 Connections #210 discussion on r/NYTConnections.
Alphabet
Alphabet came up in discussion as a technology-company association. Treat that as a player-reported connection, not confirmation of an official group label or of every word in the group.
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Players also discussed “peach” as a word for something exemplary or marvelous, rather than only the fruit. That figurative meaning can make a tile seem to belong to a different group than its literal reading suggests.
Why Connections clues can overlap
The game presents 16 words and asks you to sort them into four groups of four. Its four difficulty colors are yellow, green, blue, and purple, with yellow the easiest and purple the trickiest. The New York Times says each puzzle has one solution and is designed so some words plausibly fit more than one category. The NYT Help Center’s Connections guide explains the rules and color system.
Rank #2
A useful approach is to look for a complete set of four words that share a precise relationship, rather than locking in a group because two or three tiles seem to fit. Reconsider a tempting word if it has a stronger alternative association.
Why the year matters
The #210 identifier and the dated community thread point to Sunday, January 7, 2024. January 7, 2025 was a different puzzle, reported as #576 in contemporaneous answer coverage. If you arrived looking for the 2025 board, this is not its solution. Parade’s January 7, 2025 coverage and Forbes’ January 7, 2025 coverage identify the later date’s puzzle separately.
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Connections is free to play on the NYT website and in NYT apps, and no account is currently required. Signing in lets you carry progress across devices. New puzzles release daily at midnight in the player’s timezone. For archived puzzles, the NYT says its archive goes back to June 12, 2023 and is available to All Access and Games subscribers. The Connections Help Center page covers access and timing; its archive and Connections Bot information describes subscriber features.
The Connections Bot provides personalized statistics and analysis, including difficulty, ratings, categories, mistakes, and a guess-by-guess review. The Help Center lists it for All Access, Home Delivery, and Games subscribers. It can help you review your own play, but it is not a substitute for a verified answer key to this particular puzzle.
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