India, Jan. 24 -- NYT Connections 24 January, 2026:The Saturday NYT Connections puzzle, #958, provided a more relaxing mental exercise on a busy week. The puzzle stayed consistent with a familiar theme of links by relying on a reliance on familiar concepts of patterns without relying on particularly creative forms of deception.

Several ambles in the overlaps provided a brief tantalizing diversion from a generally consistent set of categories that provided a steady solver with a fabulous confidence boost.

NYT Connections is a daily puzzle. The connection is that the solver has to take a list of 16 seemingly unrelated words and group them into a clean set of groups of four. There is a connection within each group, and that connection can ...