‘Connections’ January 21: Answers and hints for puzzle #590

Connections is a popular daily word puzzle that tests players’ ability to notice patterns in a table of terms.

Every day Newsweek provides readers with the best hints and tips to solve Connections, one of the most popular games published by New York Times.

Connections was released in 2023 and quickly became a huge hit, thanks to its challenging but fun premise.

This is how you play Connections

The categories vary in difficulty from yellow to green to blue to purple, with yellow considered the easiest category and purple the hardest.

e.g. a recent game linked the words “Braid”, “Bun”, “Pony” and “Twist” under “Ways to wear your hair up” in the blue category.

Once you have selected four words, click the “send” button. If your selections match a category, they appear in the category color and disappear from the grid. If they are incorrect, however, they will remain gray and remain on the board.

If you get stuck, try selecting the “shuffle” button to move the words to another location on the grid.

Players have up to four chances to guess wrong before the game ends. There is no time limit, so no need to rush things.

“My best advice is to hold off on guessing as long as you can,” Wyna Liu, game editor at New York Times, previously told Newsweek.