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NYT Connections Hints Today (#976)—Answers for Wednesday, February 11

You’re midway through the week, and I hope I’ve helped you figure out the NYT Connections answers more than once! This Wednesday, you’ve got a doozy of a challenge to solve, but guess what? I’m here, as always, with the NYT Connections hints you need to either get one step closer to or ultimately solve today’s puzzle.

Read on to get the NYT Connections hints and answers you need!

How to Play NYT Connections

In June 2023, NYT Connections emerged as yet another game in the ever-growing New York Times lineup. 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 to users worldwide and can be played on either desktop devices or via 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 might have a double meaning, 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 difficult, too.

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 11)

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

  • NET
  • RINK
  • MOON
  • CAKE
  • RETURN
  • PUCK
  • BLOCK
  • GAIN
  • PINE
  • BRICK
  • COASTER
  • BAG
  • DERBY
  • SWOON
  • YIELD
  • YEARN

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

  • Yellow – You might do these if you really love someone
  • Green – What you might refer to ‘incoming money’ as
  • Blue Things that are dense, chunky, or compacted
  • Purple – Words that could be prefaced with ‘roller’

Here’s the final warning before we get to the NYT Connections answers for today, February 11:

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Very well!

NYT Connections Answers Explained for Today, February 11 (#976)

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

  • Yellow – MOON, PINE, SWOON, YEARN
  • Green – GAIN, NET, RETURN, YIELD
  • Blue – BLOCK, BRICK, CAKE, PUCK
  • Purple – BAG, COASTER, DERBY, RINK

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

Written by
Grant Taylor-Hill
Senior Editor and Esports Lead

Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.

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