NYT Connections Hints Today (#982)—Answers for Tuesday, February 17

How has your week started? Let’s hope you’re on a high note and the rest of the week is looking great. We’ve got another batch of NYT Connections hints and solutions for you to dig into below. If you want to finish today’s puzzle as quickly as possible, look no further than this guide.

Here are the NYT Connections answers for today’s puzzle – just scroll down!

How to Play NYT Connections

In June 2023, NYT Connections emerged as yet another game in the ever-growing lineup of the New York Times titles. 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 worldwide and can be played on desktop devices or in 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.

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 17)

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

• PLUM
• LEAF
• FLASH
• BUSTLE
• THUMB
• OYSTER
• FLOPPY
• ZIP
• SKIM
• SOY
• DART
• BOMBAY
• SPEED
• FLIP
• HOISIN
• MISSUS

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

• Yellow – Ways to describe moving quickly
• Green – Words that you might associate with Chinese food
• Blue – Words to describe flipping through a book
• Purple – Look at the first half of the word for ways to fail

Here’s the final warning before we get to the NYT Connections answers for today, February 17:

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NYT Connections Answers Explained for Today, February 17 (#982)

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

• Yellow – DART, FLASH, SPEED, ZIP
• Green – HOISIN, OYSTER, PLUM, SOY
• Blue – FLIP, LEAF, SKIM, THUMB
• Purple – BOMBAY, BUSTLE, FLOPPY, MISSUS

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