NYT Connections Hints & Answers — Saturday, January 11, 2025 (#580)

Puzzle #580. Start with a gentle nudge and work down — the full answers are at the bottom, hidden until you ask for them.

Just tell me the answer

The NYT Connections answer for Saturday, January 11, 2025 (puzzle #580) is: YELLOW — DISPLAY OF ROWS AND COLUMNS: ARRAY, GRID, MATRIX, TABLE. GREEN — THINGS TO DO AT A WORK EVENT: CIRCULATE, CONVERSE, MINGLE, NETWORK. BLUE — OLYMPIC EVENTS SINCE 2000: BREAKING, SURFING, TAEKWONDO, TRAMPOLINE. PURPLE — ___ COURT: FOOD, KANGAROO, SUPREME, TENNIS.

Today's 16 words

The grid exactly as NYT laid it out for Saturday, January 11, 2025. Nothing below this point is spoiled until you open it.

CONVERSE
SUPREME
FOOD
NETWORK
SURFING
KANGAROO
TABLE
TENNIS
MATRIX
BREAKING
TRAMPOLINE
GRID
CIRCULATE
TAEKWONDO
ARRAY
MINGLE

How hard is Connections #580?

Medium42/100
  • One category runs on wordplay rather than meaning.

Where to start: Look for the four words that combine with "Court" — locking that group down removes four red herrings from the rest of the grid.

Connections hints for Saturday, January 11, 2025

Four levels, each giving away a little more. Open only as many as you need.

NYT Connections answers for Saturday, January 11, 2025

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Common questions

What is the NYT Connections answer for Saturday, January 11, 2025?

The NYT Connections answer for Saturday, January 11, 2025 (puzzle #580) is: YELLOW — DISPLAY OF ROWS AND COLUMNS: ARRAY, GRID, MATRIX, TABLE. GREEN — THINGS TO DO AT A WORK EVENT: CIRCULATE, CONVERSE, MINGLE, NETWORK. BLUE — OLYMPIC EVENTS SINCE 2000: BREAKING, SURFING, TAEKWONDO, TRAMPOLINE. PURPLE — ___ COURT: FOOD, KANGAROO, SUPREME, TENNIS.

What is the purple group in Connections #580?

The purple (hardest) group is "___ COURT": FOOD, KANGAROO, SUPREME, TENNIS.

What is the easiest group in today's Connections puzzle?

The yellow group is the most straightforward: "DISPLAY OF ROWS AND COLUMNS" — ARRAY, GRID, MATRIX, TABLE. Solving it first removes four words from the grid.

What number is today's Connections puzzle?

Saturday, January 11, 2025 is NYT Connections puzzle #580. Connections launched on 12 June 2023 with puzzle #1, and a new puzzle is published every day.

What time does a new NYT Connections puzzle come out?

A new Connections puzzle unlocks at midnight in your own local time zone, so the changeover happens at a different moment around the world. The puzzle itself is the same for everyone on a given date.