Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on January 29 for puzzle #598 are significantly easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 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, #597, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #598. 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: Wicked, Gingerbread, Full, Talk, Possessed, Venom, Alien, Drool, Haunted, Dream, Snore, Bore, Had, Gladiator, White, and Held.
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Owned
- 🟩 Green: Things you might do in your sleep
- 🟦 Blue: Movie series with 2024 releases
- 🟪 Purple: ____ House
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: Catch a flick before a nap and own your own house (ha).
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #598?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Owned: Bore, had, held, possessed
- 🟩 Things you might do in your sleep: Dream, drool, snore, talk
- 🟦 Movie series with 2024 releases: Alien, Gladiator, Venom, Wicked
- 🟪 ____ House: Full, gingerbread, haunted, white
The first thing I saw as I was looking at the grid was Gingerbread, so I was already thinking about movies, though I was actually thinking of Ginger Snaps on the mind. Spotting Gladiator sealed the deal and it was a quick hunt for Venom, Alien and Wicked. I didn't realize all four came out in 2024, but mostly because I've skipped every Venom movie.
I saw drool and talk next and thought sleep. Snore and dream were easy finds from there. But I didn't select them because I also saw yellow with bore, had, held, possessed. Which had me seeing purple next.
Full House, Gingerbread House, Haunted House, White House. Tapped that in and then wrapped up the green and yellow categories to finish it up.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Funny person: Card, character, joker, laugh
- 🟩 Resistance training equipment: Band, bench, dumbbell, mat
- 🟦 Candy bars minus "S": Airhead, Mar, Mound Snicker
- 🟪 Speed ____: Bump, chess, demon, dial
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #597, which had a difficulty rating of 3.5 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
My sweet tooth kicked off today's puzzle for me as I saw Snicker and Mar and was thinking candy bars. Mound and Airhead were quick finds from there.
I saw band and dumbbell which made me think of the gym. Which made mat and bench easy spots for me.
I got a little stuck here because I wasn't thinking funny but was focusing on Joker as a card. But I did see speed demon which opened up speed bump and speed dial. I briefly forgot about speed chess, but it was the only that made sense there for the purple grouping.
Which led to funny person with card, character, joker and laugh.
