The NYT Connections for today, January 15, is now available for the players. Since its debut in June 2023, the word game has become one of the most popular puzzles published by the New York Times. Players get a grid of 16 words and have to sort them into four categories of four. Each category represents a particular theme, which can be a wide array of things — from homonyms to palindromes to words ending with ‘-ing.’ These categories, in turn, are represented by colors, marking their difficulties. Yellow is the easiest Category, and Purple is the most difficult. The other two colors are green and blue.

Here are the hints, clues, and answers for today, January 15’s NYT Connections.

Connections hint for January 15

The 16 words in today, January 15 edition of of the game are PEANUT, VEHICLE, DIRTY, ROBOT, SHY, BIG, WET, TOAD, MEDIUM, LOW, PERFECT, TOOL, LIGHT, MECHANISM, DRY, and SHORT.

The hints for January 15 Connections are as follows:

Yellow Category

Things used to get the desired result.

Green Category

Deficient of something.

Blue Category

Ways to make a certain cocktail.

Purple Category

It goes well after “Mr.”

What are the Connections answers for today, January 15?

The following are the NYT Connections answers for today, January 15:

Yellow Category: Means

MECHANISM, MEDIUM, TOOL, and VEHICLE.

Green Category: Lacking

LIGHT, LOW, SHORT, and SHY.

Blue Category: Martini specifications

DIRTY, DRY, PERFECT, and WET.

Purple Category: fictional misters

BIG, PEANUT, ROBOT, and TOAD.

We faced some difficulties solving today’s game as there were more commonalities between words than usual. We tried to group MECHANISM, TOOL, and VEHICLE with ROBOT, believing that the shared theme was artificial, but that was evidently wrong. We also tried to group LIGHT, LOW, and SHORT with PEANUT mistakenly and were again proven wrong. Things became easier after we managed to solve the Green category. After that, the remaining ones effectively solved themselves.