NYT Connections Hints Today (#985)—Answers for Friday, February 20

Congratulations, you’ve made it to the end of another tough week. Your reward for making it this far is another string of NYT Connections hints and answers. It’s not much, but it’s all I have! If you scroll down, you’ll get the NYT Connections solutions you need to solve today’s puzzle as quickly as possible.

Enjoy your weekend! But don’t forget to stop back tomorrow for another guide!

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 20)

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

• MAGIC WAND
• ECLIPSE
• TOP HAT
• DONKEY
• TIDE
• PLAYING CARD
• WEREWOLF
• BOOT
• SILVER BULLET
• IRON
• CHEESE
• GREEN CHEESE
• SOCKET
• PANACEA
• THIMBLE
• EASY ANSWER

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

• Yellow – Words you might link to a quick, simple fix
• Green – Words you might link to the moon in some way
• Blue – Words that you’d associate with a game of Monopoly
• Purple – Words that pair nicely with the concept of ‘Jack’

Here’s the final warning before we get to the NYT Connections answers for today, February 20:

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Very well!

NYT Connections Answers Explained for Today, February 20 (#985)

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

• Yellow – EASY ANSWER, MAGIC WAND, PANACEA, SILVER BULLET
• Green – ECLIPSE, GREEN CHEESE, TIDE, WEREWOLF
• Blue – BOOT, IRON, THIMBLE, TOP HAT
• Purple – CHEESE, DONKEY, PLAYING CARD, SOCKET

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