NYT Connections Hints Today (#980)—Answers for Sunday, February 15

Another week draws to a close, but how was it for you? Did you enjoy Valentine’s Day? Or did you miss a day of the NYT Connections puzzle and now your streak is lost, and you’re inconsolable? Whatever happened, I’m back again with another round of NYT Connections hints to help you wrap things up quickly.

Read on to get today’s NYT Connections answers and tips.

How to Play NYT Connections

In June 2023, NYT Connections emerged as yet another game in the ever-growing New York Times lineup. This title soared immediately, and it’s easy to see why. As a free-to-play, accessible New York Times game, NYT Connections is available to users worldwide and can be played on either desktop devices or via a mobile app.

But how do you play NYT Connections?

The NYT team will provide you with a grid of 16 words once a day. The only task left up to you is to sort those words into four groups of four by finding their commonalities. Every NYT Connections puzzle has just one solution, and some words can have double meanings, so it can sometimes be tricky to figure out the answers.

It’s also important to stress that the words are color-coded: yellow, blue, green, and purple. That’s in order of difficulty from least to most difficult, too.

What’s critical here is that you get four guesses every day, and if you use those, your NYT Connections answers for today will be out of reach, as it’ll be game over.

Today’s NYT Connections Hints (February 15)

Here are the words from today’s NYT Connections puzzle:

• VESTIGE
• ATLAS
• RINGMASTER
• INFERIORITY
• ECHO
• DIALECT
• THESAURUS
• BUZZARD
• ELECTRA
• ENCYCLOPEDIA
• REMINDER
• CALLIOPE
• OEDIPUS
• TRACE
• SUPERIORITY
• DICTIONARY

And here are the hints I can offer for today’s NYT Connections:

• Yellow – Books that help you understand words
• Green – Things left behind
• Blue – Words to describe a ‘complex’
• Purple – Words that begin with ways to contact people

Here’s the final warning before we get to the NYT Connections answers for today, February 15:

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Very well!

NYT Connections Answers Explained for Today, February 15 (#980)

If you want to jump straight to the answers for today’s NYT Connections puzzle, I’ve got you covered:

• Yellow – ATLAS, DICTIONARY, ENCYCLOPEDIA, THESAURUS
• Green – ECHO, REMINDER, TRACE, VESTIGE
• Blue – ELECTRA, INFERIORITY, OEDIPUS, SUPERIORITY
• Purple – BUZZARD, CALLIOPE, DIALECT, RINGMASTER

When Does NYT Connections Reset?

That’s today’s puzzle, but if you want the next one, the game resets daily at midnight local time (that’s your local time). You’ll have 24 hours to complete the puzzle when midnight ticks over in your timezone.

How did you do? Did you get a perfect run? Let me know what your streak looks like on the Insider Gaming Discord server