HIGHLIGHTS
- Meaning of Alternative in today’s NYT Connections refers to the alternative rock genre, which blends elements of punk, indie, and hard rock.
- The word Pan refers to “pancake,” a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides in a pan, and is placed in the purple group.
- “Divulge,” “Words on a Mac Keyboard,” “Words Shortened in Rock Genres,” and “Cake” are the four groups in the February 15th NYT Connections.
Editor Wyna Liu created NYT Connections, a daily word puzzle game for The New York Times.
In yesterday’s puzzle, players struggled to group words like Bae and Creak into categories based on a shared theme.
In today’s set of words, fitting Alternative and Pan into any group might be tricky for Connections players.
NYT Connections Answers For Today (February 15)
In NYT Connections, there are four categories, each containing four words. The words within each category must have a common theme.
The categories are identified by colors: yellow, green, blue, and purple, which indicate the difficulty level of each group.
As with every puzzle, you begin by analyzing each word, and it won’t take long to identify the first group.
The yellow group considered the easiest among the four, is titled “Divulge” in today’s NYT Connections.
It includes words like Blab, Dish, Spill ,and Tell, all of which mean to make known what has been or should be concealed.
Similarly, as you progress, you’ll soon recognize the next set of words that share a common theme.
The words Command, Control, Option, and Return form the green group because they are keys on a MacBook keyboard.
This forms the second group in today’s puzzle, fittingly titled “Words on a Mac Keyboard.“
This completes half of the puzzle, with eight remaining words that players must categorize into two groups.
Meaning Of Alternative In NYT Connections
As you progress, the reduced word count makes forming the group significantly easier.
After some trial and error, I finally cracked the third group in today’s NYT Connections.
Here, Alternative refers to the alternative rock genre, which blends elements of punk, indie, and hard rock.
Likewise, Emotional, Popular, and Progressive are other genres of rock music, meaning that combining them will form a group in today’s NYT Connections.
Meaning Of Pan In NYT Connections
With only four words remaining, we can simply group them to reveal the final group of today’s puzzle.
Doing so will unveil the name of the last category to players, which, in today’s case, is “__ Cake“.
This means the four words—Cheese, Cup, Pan, and Short are all prefixes to the word cake.
Here, the word Pan refers to pancake, a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides in a pan.
Here is today’s final list of words and themes for NYT Connections, organized by their difficulty levels.
- Divulge (Yellow): Blab, Dish, Spill, Tell
- Words on a Mac Keyboard (Green): Command, Control, Option, Return
- Words Shortened in Rock Genres (Blue): Emotional, Popular, Progressive, Alternative
- __ Cake (Purple): Cheese, Cup, Pan, Short
