The New York Times now provides daily suggestions for its word game Connections from Dana Roth's blog

The New York Times will now provide daily clues for Connections, its enjoyable but sometimes difficult daily word game.

You must uncover four sets of relationships between 16 words in Connections Game. Each "solution" combines four words, however the groupings might be difficult to understand. In Monday's problem, I only got one proper grouping. If you get stuck, the new Connections Companion provides a difficulty rating (3.5 out of 5, which I strongly disagree with) and tips to aid you without revealing the complete problem.

Here's how the hints operate. The game's solutions are color-coded to indicate the complexity of each group, but you won't see these colors until you properly create a group. Yellow represents the "straightforward" category, whereas the green, blue, and purple categories are designed to be more difficult to figure out. The Connections Companion displays a list of those four colors as emoji squares, and you may click the color to view one of the words in that grouping for that day.

These tips seem to be really valuable; on more than one occasion, I've sat blankly at a Connections board with no clue how the words may fit up, thus utilizing a hint might guide me in the correct way to actually solve the day's puzzle. If the daily suggestions aren't enough, you may request one in the comments section of each day's Connections Companion – perhaps a kind person will assist you.

The Connections Companion series will be available via this New York Times archive, and a new one will be released every day at 3 a.m. ET, according to publicist Victoria Kim. This new series complements current daily instructional pieces for Wordle and Spelling Bee and expands The New York Times' gaming platform.