NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, December 6

Hey there, Connectors! Welcome to the weekend!

James McAvoy has stepped behind the camera for his directorial debut with a film called California Schemin’. It’s based on a true story and it’s about a pair of rappers from my hometown in Scotland who weren’t able to make much headway with music industry executives in London. However, after they pretended to be from California, they started to find success.

The trailer looks good and early reviews are promising. I’m definitely looking forward to this one:

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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, December 6 are coming right up.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

• MODERATE

• MONITORSHIP

• AVERAGE

• CAR

• NEWTON

• INCREDIBLE

• MEAN

• TEMPER

• STANDARD

• TOADY

• COOL

• MINION

• SETTLE

• ADDERALL

• MONSTER

• PAR

The level one hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• 🟨 Yellow group — about what you'd expect

• 🟩 Green group —

• 🟦 Blue group — part of a gang that lit up Box Office Mojo once or twice

• 🟪 Purple group — left alone, these might slither or swim

One Word For Each Connections Group

Be warned: we’re really starting to get into spoiler territory.

Let’s take a look at one word for each group.

Today’s Connections word hints are…

• 🟨 Yellow group — PAR

• 🟩 Green group — TEMPER

• 🟦 Blue group — CAR

• 🟪 Purple group — NEWTON

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Today’s Connections groups are...

• 🟨 Yellow group — norm

• 🟩 Green group — mollify

• 🟦 Blue group — member of a titular group in an animation franchise

• 🟪 Purple group — starting with herpetofauna

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

• 🟨 Yellow group — norm (AVERAGE, MEAN, PAR, STANDARD)

• 🟩 Green group — mollify (COOL, MODERATE, SETTLE, TEMPER)

• 🟦 Blue group — member of a titular group in an animation franchise (CAR, INCREDIBLE, MINION, MONSTER)

• 🟪 Purple group — starting with herpetofauna (ADDERALL, MONITORSHIP, NEWTON, TOADY)

Mr. INCREDIBLE was the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw that word. So it didn't too long to figure out the blues from there.

Those refer to the Cars series, The Incredibles (and The Incredibles 2), the Minions films and Monsters Inc./Monsters University.

The yellows were easy enough to spot. MODERATE could have fit in there, though.

From there, I figured out the greens (no real issue there) but I remembered to submit the purples first, for once. It took me a minute to figure out what the connection was there, but staring at TOADY for long enough made it click. I would probably just call 'em reptiles and amphibians instead of... whatever that word is. These refer to adder, monitor, newt and toad.

Squaring all of that away means my streak is now at 280 wins in a row. Goodness. That's not bad. How did you get on today? Here's my grid:

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That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to subscribe to my newsletter for hints and the solution for Sunday’s game if you need them.

P.S. There are quite a few bands I like releasing holiday songs this year. Foo Fighters are probably my favorite band of all time, but I’m so disappointed in them for realizing a visualizer video for their cover of “Run Rudolph Run” that was made using generative AI. Gross.

I have no such compunctions about this very fun (and original!) holiday song from The All-American Rejects, though. “Get This” is pretty decent:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!

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