Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is a mixture of everything with some hard categories thrown in. However, if you want to skip the hard parts, then keep reading as we talk about all the hints, categories, and answers for NYT Connections on December 30. Without further ado, let’s begin.
Hint for Today’s Connections Themes
Let’s begin with some quick hints for the Connections themes today. Check them out and see if you can guess any of them.
- Yellow Category – Even animals can be in greyscale
- Green Category – Events follow this
- Blue Category – These sound the same but aren’t
- Purple Category – A word follows after all of these
We wish we could go into more detail here, but these hints are the best we can share. They are all related to the categories for the puzzle, so think hard before you scroll down below to see the exact category names. We also think you don’t need an additional hint for today. However, if you still can’t find them and need more help, maybe these tricks to solve NYT Connections will provide assistance.
Spoiler Warning #1 While this section included hints for the categories, the next section names them directly. Scroll down if you’re ready.
Today’s Connections Category Names
If you still can’t figure out the NYT Connections category names, then keep reading for more help.
- Yellow – BLACK-AND-WHITE-ANIMALS
- Green – SEQUENCE
- Blue – HETERONYMS
- Purple – _ _ _TRAP
We hope you can guess the words under each category now. However, If you still cannot and need more help, keep reading.
Spoiler Warning #2 The next section includes the answer for today’s puzzle; you will see all the answers in their categories. This is your last chance to solve it yourself.
Connections Answer for December 30
Are you still stuck with the puzzle? In that case, the answers to today’s Connections are:
- BLACK-AND-WHITE ANIMALS – Orca, Panda, Skunk, Zebra
- SEQUENCE – Chain, Series, String, Train
- HETERONYMS – Bass, Dove, Desert, Wind
- _ _ _ TRAP – Bear, Sand, Speed, Tourist
I started my NYT Connections journey by solving the Yellow category. It was quite easy even if the staff did choose a different approach this time around. I then moved on to the Green category and chained together the words that formed these events.
I definitely had trouble with the Blue category as I had never heard of Heteronyms before. However, the words did sound the same to me, even if I didn’t fully understand them.
There were only four words left. I connected them all together and got the Purple category and the NYT Connections for December 30.
NYT Connections Past Answers
We hope the answers above helped you solve the NYT Connections puzzle for today. However, if you stumbled here by accident, there’s a chance you might be looking for answers to previous puzzles.
Well, for such times and more, we have you covered. Feel free to go through our directory to NYT Connections for the last three days for all the help you need.
What about you? How was your experience with today’s puzzle? Where did you get stuck if you did? Let us know in the comments below.
Anshuman Jain
