Today's sixteen words

NYT Connections game 1224 for Saturday, October seventeenth gives you BREA, KING, SNAP, PING, STILL, PAZ, SNOW, SHOT, BOHÈME, FIDDLER, ALERT, PRINT, CHIME, SCALA, HERMIT, DING.

Yellow group: digital alerts

The yellow group, rated easy, groups words that mean your phone wants your attention. The answers are ALERT, CHIME, DING, PING.

Green group: photo synonyms

The green group, also easy, contains four synonyms for photo. The answers are PRINT, SHOT, SNAP, STILL.

Blue group: kinds of crabs

The blue group, often quite tough, groups types of marine crabs. The answers are FIDDLER, HERMIT, KING, SNOW.

Purple group: operas minus La

The purple group, usually very difficult, contains operas with the word La removed from their titles. The answers are BOHÈME, BREA, PAZ, SCALA.

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Solver's strategy and difficulty

The puzzle was rated easy overall. The solver connected the purple group first, then the yellow group, then the green group, leaving the blue group by elimination.

How Connections works

NYT Connections challenges you to find groups of four items sharing something in common. Green is easy, yellow harder, blue tougher, purple usually very difficult. You can make up to four mistakes.