NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, February 21 (game #621)

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #621) - today's words

Today's NYT Connections words are…

• GUITAR
• PICK
• EYEDROPPER
• SOLUTION
• HARVEST
• FIX
• CAN OPENER
• ERASER
• BASEBALL
• GLOVE
• MAGIC WAND
• ANSWER
• REAP
• GATHER
• GOLF CLUB
• LASSO
• REMEDY

NYT Connections today (game #621) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: Working it out
• GREEN: Ways to bring in the crops  
• BLUE: Image editing icons
• PURPLE: For lefties too

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #621) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: WAY OF SOLVING A PROBLEM 
• GREEN: COLLECT, AS FROM AN ORCHARD 
• BLUE: PHOTOSHOP TOOLS 
• PURPLE: OBJECTS THAT MAY BE RIGHT- OR LEFT-HANDED 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #621) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #621, are…

• YELLOW: WAY OF SOLVING A PROBLEM ANSWER, FIX, REMEDY, SOLUTION
• GREEN: COLLECT, AS FROM AN ORCHARD GATHER, HARVEST, PICK, REAP
• BLUE: PHOTOSHOP TOOLS ERASER, EYEDROPPER, LASSO, MAGIC WAND
• PURPLE: OBJECTS THAT MAY BE RIGHT- OR LEFT-HANDED BASEBALL GLOVE, CAN OPENER, GOLF CLUB, GUITAR

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• My rating: Hard
• My score: 3 mistakes

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I used up three Mistakes today trying to wrangle PHOTOSHOP TOOLS (I convinced myself PICK was one of them) and getting that muddled up with a vague idea of “making things vanish” (ERASER, MAGIC WAND, FIX, REMEDY – it sort of made sense).

Seeing as I’ve only used Photoshop a couple of times, I’m pretty pleased to have eventually solved it, but that said all these tools can be found in Paint as well.

Had OBJECTS THAT MAY BE RIGHT- OR LEFT-HANDED also included scissors, I may have got there, but I could have stared at the four items forever without knowing their cunning connection. Congrats if you got it.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.

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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 20 February, game #620)

• YELLOW: ALERT ALARM, FLARE, SIGNAL, SOS
• GREEN: SPEND THE NIGHT (AT) BUNK, CRASH, SLEEP, STAY
• BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH EARLY MORNING DEW, ROOSTER, SUNRISE, WORM
• PURPLE: COOKIE CUTTER SHAPES IN "SQUID GAME" CIRCLE, STAR, TRIANGLE, UMBRELLA

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What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.