Today's NYT Connections hints and answers (January 12, 2025): All puzzle answers

Today's NYT Connections hints and answers can save your winning streak. The challenge features 16 words, tasking the community to categorize them into four sets of related words. Players only get four chances to unravel the answers, and they cannot know the categories without solving the puzzle.

This article brings four certain hints to help you decipher the names of the categories. You can also check the final segment for all the answers. Cross-check your answers before submitting them.

Today's NYT Connections hints (January 12, 2025)

The hints for the NYT Connections puzzle for January 12, 2025, are provided below:

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All words for NYT Connections today (Image via The New York Times)

Categories	Hints
Yellow category	Our imagination can lead us to these things.
Green category	These words are related to dating.
Blue category	These are popular video games.
Purple category	This category is about something that is often associated to being at the end of something.

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The NYT Connections answers for today (January 12, 2025)

The NYT Connections answers for January 12, 2025, are listed below:

All Answers for NYT Connections today (Image via The New York Times)

Categories	Answers
Yellow category	These words mean Fabrication. The words are Fairy Tale, Fiction, Fantasy, and Invention.
Green category	This category is called "Woo." The words are Charm, Pursue, Court, and Romance.
Blue category	These are Classic Atari Games. The words are Breakout, Asteroid, Centipede, and Defender.
Purple category	These are Things Featuring Tails. The words are Dress Coat, Coin Toss, Comets, and sonic The Hedgehog.

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