NYT Connections today hints and answers — Wednesday, January 22 (#591)

Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on January 22 for puzzle #591 takes a big leap in difficulty compared to yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 3.3 out of 5.

Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren’t enough, you’ll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.

Plus, we’re including a reflection on yesterday’s puzzle, #590, in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #591. Only read on if you want to know today’s Connections answers.

Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.

Today’s Connections answer — hints to help you solve it

Unlike our guide to today’s Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category’s difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you’ve made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.

Today’s Connections words are: Boxer, Ditch, Batter, Lab, Chin, Judge, Pit, Lawyer, Lecture, Hole, Wizard, Discussion, Trench, Bottoms, Seminar and Monk.

If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:

• 🟨 Yellow: Types of academic courses
• 🟩 Green: Results of some digging
• 🟦 Blue: Ones wearing robes
• 🟪 Purple: ____ up

These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today’s Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.

Here’s a larger hint: Get some digging done while attending class, maybe change your robe and get your affairs in order.

Today’s Connections answers

So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #591?

Drumroll, please…

• 🟨 Types of academic courses: Discussion, lab, lecture, seminar
• 🟩 Results of some digging: Ditch, hole, pit, trench
• 🟦 Ones wearing robes: Boxer, judge, monk, wizard
• 🟪 ____ Up: Batter, bottoms, chin, lawyer

Today was a bit harder than yesterday but sometimes you don’t help yourself. I locked into chin right away and coupled with boxer could not get “chin music” out of my brain. Which led to a few strikes.

I kicked things off with ditch and trench. Hole and pit made some from there.

Strike one here as I put together monk, wizard, judge and lawyer thinking they were job titles where people might be consider wise. So, I knocked out yellow for the easy win. Discussion, lab, lecture and seminar are all related to college courses.

Took a wild stab with chin music still on the mind with batter, bottoms, boxer and judge. Strike 2.

For some reason this mistake got batters up in my mind. Which clicked chin up and bottoms up. We finally got lawyer up for purple.

And wrapped things up in a robe with boxer, judge, monk and wizard. My fantasy enjoying self is embarrassed.

Yesterday’s Connections answers

• 🟨 Putdown: Barb, crack, dig, slight
• 🟩 Small likeness: Doll, figure, miniature, model
• 🟦 Used to clear snow: Plow, salt, sand, shovel
• 🟪 Doctors in pop culture: No, Octopus, Pepper, Who

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #590, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.

After three straight days of level 3 rated puzzles, Connections gave us a little break with today’s level 2 rated one.

I kicked things off with the green category have seen figure and miniature, it made me think of boardgames and the mini-madness that has taken over Kickstarted games in the last few years. That’s a rant for another day. Anyway, model and doll were sensible picks from there.

I saw crack and thought insult which led to barb, dig and slight.

With the last eight, Dr. Who leapt out to me so I went looking for PHD docs and got Dr. No, Doc Ock and Dr. Pepper.

Which left snow plows, salt, sand and shovel for the blue group.