Need help with NYT Connections game #952 for Sunday, January 18, 2026? Start with gentle nudges, then reveal the category names, and open the final section for all 16 answers. Stop at any point to avoid spoilers.
Game #952 hints for Sunday, January 18
These clues progress from broad hints to more revealing prompts. The puzzle’s four groups are color-coded by difficulty: yellow, green, blue, and purple.
- Yellow: Think about characteristics of a bird.
- Green: What might you do to something in a rage?
- Blue: Look for things you might see on a paperback.
- Purple: Think of stars from Hollywood’s past.
For alternate nudges, Parade phrases the themes as “Donald’s attributes,” “What you might do in a rage room,” “Dressing for a New York Times Bestseller,” and “Iconic tinseltown performers” (Parade’s January 18 guide).
Category names
Ready for a stronger clue? The four categories are:
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- Yellow: Features of a duck
- Green: Destroy
- Blue: Found on a book jacket
- Purple: Classic Hollywood actors
All 16 answers for Connections #952
Full spoilers below. The complete word groups are:
- Features of a duck: BILL, FEATHERS, WEBBING, WINGS
- Destroy: BREAK, DAMAGE, TOTAL, WRECK
- Found on a book jacket: AUTHOR, QUOTE, SYNOPSIS, TITLE
- Classic Hollywood actors: COOPER, GRANT, PECK, PRICE
The overlap to watch is PRICE: it belongs with COOPER, GRANT, and PECK as an actor’s surname, not with the book-jacket terms. TechRadar identifies this as the puzzle’s trickiest ambiguity in its guide to game #952.
How Connections works
Connections asks players to sort 16 words into four groups of four that share a connection. The groups carry yellow, green, blue, and purple labels to indicate difficulty, and players can make up to four mistakes, according to the cited guides. The game is available through NYT Games on desktop and mobile; see Try Hard Guides’ January 18 answers page for its description of selecting and submitting a group.
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Which puzzle these answers cover
These solutions are for Connections game #952, dated Sunday, January 18, 2026. TechRadar’s guide appeared on January 17, while Parade’s is dated January 18. The daily puzzle appears at midnight in each time zone, so the “today” label can vary depending on where a reader is. Parade and Try Hard Guides independently report the same four answer groups.
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