The NYT Connections for today, January 31, 2025, is now available. First published in The New York Times in June 2023, the word game has drawn many interested players since then. In the game, there is a grid of 16 words. The player must sort these words into four groups. Each group represents a theme shared by four words from the grid. In turn, these groups are represented by four colors, marking their difficulty. For instance, yellow is the easiest group or category and purple is the toughest. Here are the clues, hints, and answers for the NYT Connections for January 31.

Connections hint for January 31

The hints for January 31 Connections are as follows:

Yellow Category

Items used to keep one’s belongings

Green Category

We breathe with this

Blue Category

Individuals who have considerable knowledge about something

Purple Category

Names of movements in an athletic event.

The 16 words in the January 31st edition of the word game are SNOOT, BREAST, FREE, CHEST, BUTTER, SNOB, BACK, EXPERT, BEAK, TRUNK, CRITIC, CASE, CONNOISSEUR, SNOUT, CRATE, and HONKER.

What are the Connections answers for today, January 31?

The following are the NYT Connections answers for today, January 31:

Yellow Category:  Storage containers

CASE, CHEST, CRATE, and TRUNK

Green Category: Schnozz

BEAK, HONKER, SNOOT, and SNOUT

Blue Category: Ones with discerning tastes

CONNOISSEUR, CRITIC, EXPERT, and SNOB

Purple Category: Starts of swimming strokes

BACK, BREAST, BUTTER, and FREE.

While trying to solve today’s word game, we figured out the Blue category first. Admittedly, we tried to group CHEST with two similar words in the grid before realizing that the grid doesn’t have the necessary fourth word. We also tried to put BUTTER in the same category as SNOOT, but clearly, that was wrong. Ultimately, we realized that one of the categories denotes ‘nose’ and figured out the four words that will fall under that. Finally, once again, the Purple category effectively solved itself as the four remaining words after we solved the other three groups.