NYT Connections Hints Today (#973)—Answers for Sunday, February 8

Another week draws to a close, and hopefully, your NYT Connections streak persists. We’re cutting fast through February and will be bidding farewell to the winter months soon enough, but you know what we’re not bidding farewell to today? That’s right – today’s NYT Connections hints and solutions.

Read on to get the full scope of today’s NYT Connections answers, to get this puzzle done as quickly as possible.

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 might have a double meaning, 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 8)

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

• TIMER
• INHIBIT
• SYMBOL
• ROUTINE
• GAG
• LENGTH
• CENTS
• MUZZLE
• FACED
• NUMBER
• UPPERCASE
• DRILL
• BIT
• SILENCE
• HABIT
• GRIND

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

• Yellow – To keep things quiet
• Green – This might describe a regular side gig
• Blue – Designing a password
• Purple – These follow two

Here’s the final warning before we get to the NYT Connections answers for today, February 8:

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NYT Connections Answers Explained for Today, February 8 (#973)

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

• Yellow – GAG, INHIBIT, MUZZLE, SILENCE
• Green – DRILL, GRIND, HABIT, ROUTINE
• Blue – LENGTH, NUMBER, SYMBOL, UPPERCASE
• Purple – BITS, CENTS, FACED, TIMER

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