Need a hint for today’s Connections on Friday, 19th December? Sometimes, you find the Connections puzzle answers within minutes, but you aren’t likely to get that lucky every time. Due to a pretty high difficulty level, most Connections puzzles are more likely to fry your brain.
It may be a daunting task, finding the hidden themes, but this Connections guide is here to help. Choose a hint or word reveal, or scroll further down to find the answers.
In this guide:
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
INFORMATION
COMMERCE
LEFTOVERS
DELIVERY
INTELLIGENCE
EDUCATION
BIRTH
COOK
DATA
DETAILS
DOC
ENERGY
GO OUT
LABOR
PEER
WORF
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Friday 19th December
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: You would need this to do research.
- Green: It involves food.
- Blue: Think of “departments”.
- Purple: Sounds like…
- Extra hint 1: Every theme except blue contains a word starting with “D”.
- Extra hint 2: “Birth” and “delivery” belong to different groups.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Details
- Green: Leftovers
- Blue: Commerce
- Purple: Peer
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups?
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Findings
- Green: Dinner Options
- Blue: U.S. Cabinet Departments
- Purple: Homophones Of Places To Park A Ship
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Friday, 19th December:
- Yellow: Findings (Data, Details, Information, Intelligence)
- Green: Dinner Options (Cook, Delivery, Go Out, Leftovers)
- Blue: U.S. Cabinet Departments (Commerce, Education, Energy, Labor)
- Purple: Homophones Of Places To Park A Ship (Birth, Doc, Peer, Worf)
Here are the Connections answers for December 19. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT
Please tell me I wasn’t the only Connections player to hyperfocus on a “birth” theme with “labor” and “delivery” today. I was so sure I’d found one of the puzzle solutions… But alas, there are no babies involved in this puzzle.
The yellow theme saved the day by not being too insanely difficult, though, and I even made some headway with the U.S. departments. After all, you could solve that one by just thinking of “government departments” or even “institutions” – they’re fairly similar regardless of country.
As for the homophone theme, that one proved far too challenging for me. I don’t usually struggle that much with homophones, but I just didn’t see the wharf and berth today.
Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!
