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Hints for Connections #922
Try these category nudges before looking at the tiles grouped together:
- Conclusions
- Let’s eat
- Government divisions
- Where to put a boat
Parade and TechRadar identify the puzzle as game #922 for December 19, 2025, and report the solutions below. Parade’s hints and answers; TechRadar’s hints and answers.
Answers for Friday, December 19
Spoilers: The four complete groups are listed here.
| Category | Tiles | Connection |
|---|---|---|
| Findings | DATA, DETAILS, INFORMATION, INTELLIGENCE | Each can refer to collected knowledge or findings. |
| Dinner Options | COOK, DELIVERY, GO OUT, LEFTOVERS | Ways to handle dinner or get a meal. |
| U.S. Cabinet Departments | COMMERCE, EDUCATION, ENERGY, LABOR | Names of four U.S. Cabinet departments. |
| Homophones of places to park a ship | BIRTH, DOC, PEER, WORF | They sound like berth, dock, pier, and wharf. |
The complete tile list is EDUCATION, PEER, COOK, DATA, DOC, LABOR, BIRTH, DETAILS, WORF, GO OUT, ENERGY, COMMERCE, INFORMATION, LEFTOVERS, INTELLIGENCE, and DELIVERY. All Things How’s word list and category explanations prints COMMERCE in full; Parade’s page appears to truncate it as “COMMERC.”
How Connections works
Connections presents 16 words and asks players to sort them into four groups of four that share a theme. The category colors run from yellow, the easiest, to purple, the trickiest. The New York Times says editors curate the words and categories using the Oxford Dictionary. NYT Help Center: Connections.
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Playing or replaying this puzzle
The daily game is available on the NYT Games website and apps, and the daily puzzle appears at midnight in the player’s timezone. The NYT Help Center says Connections is free to play without registration or sign-in. Its archive is available to Games and All Access subscribers and goes back to June 12, 2023. Archive play affects puzzle statistics but not streaks, and completed archived puzzles cannot be replayed. The same help page says Connections Bot access is limited to All Access, Home Delivery, and Games subscribers. NYT Help Center: Connections.
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