by It’s time to play today New York Times Connections Puzzle! If you have already opened it and do not seem to guess groups, I promise you are not the only one. However, I have good news: we have hints (and spoilers if you want them) to help you by coming on Thursday’s puzzle: #788. Don’t feel bad because you take a look – nobody wants to lose his winning series.
Because we are in this together, I will share how I did it every day. This puzzle was in one way or another easy for me today, thanks to quickly to yellow and blue. Would I ever have guessed purple? No.
If you are new with NYT connections, we have a number of tips to help you on the road. Also view today’s hints and answer today’s hints.
How to play NYT connections
NYT Connections is a surprisingly difficult word game and if you play, you will now be considered a “connector”. There are 16 words presented in a schedule of four by four and your goal is to match four words in their respective color -coded groups (yellow, green, blue, purple). Yellow is the easiest to guess, while purple is the most difficult.
Your job is to find out how the four words are connected to a specific group. In one recent puzzle, for example, the Blue Group was “related to buying a house” and the words were assessment, escrow, insurance and mortgage.
If you make a mistake when you submit, that’s okay. You get four guesses before the game is over and the answers are revealed. You can also click on the Lightbulb icon to get some hints, but we will also offer them here.
If you are obsessed with this game after completing just one puzzle, I have bad news for you. You can only play once a day. The timer is reset every night at midnight.
Tips for playing NYT connections
I recently started playing connections, but here are some tips that I found useful along the way.
1. If you get an answer wrong, pay attention to the text that appears at the top of the puzzle. “One away” means that you are only wrong. Analyze each word to find one that may fit better in another group and try a new word.
2. If you are stuck, slide the plate. You can shake as often as you want you to see a number of different word combinations.
3. First try to find the easy yellow group words. Those words usually stick out because they have so much in common – they are often synonyms of each other. But be wary of the trick words that can fit in multiple categories.
4. Stumps? Come back to the puzzle with a fresher mind later. Trying to solve a difficult puzzle without “sleeping” on it can lead to too many mistakes.
Today’s NYT connections Hints
View these hints if you are struggling to group them together.
I will give you my own hints:
Yellow group: Things you do on your computer
Green Group: Hole
Blue group: Characters with something common
Purple group: Tennis players
Here is one word of each group:
Yellow group hint word: Click
Green group hint word: Poke
Blue Group Hint Word: Vulcan
Purple group hint word: Grave
Okay, on to the official group names for a larger hint. If you don’t want to know what those are, stop scrolling.
NYT connections group names
Here are the group names for today’s puzzle.
Yellow group: Mouse actions
Green Group: Perforate
Blue group: Those with pointed ears
Purple group: Wimbledon winners
Warning, spoilers ahead! If you browse here, the answers below are.
Last warning! Last chance to go back and finish the game.
NYT Connections’ answers today NYT connections (spoilers)
Here are the connecting groups and the words that go with it.
Yellow group: Mouse actions (click, drag, float, scroll)
Green Group: Perforation (boring, pierce, poke, punch)
Blue group: Those with pointed ears (Batman, Devil, Elf, Vulcan)
Purple group: Wimbledon winners (Borg, Graf, King, Sinner)
My results today
Today’s puzzle wasn’t that bad today. When I guessed blue, I certainly didn’t think, “Oh, they have pointed ears in common!” Again, Purple was the last, but I don’t think I could have guessed it if I hadn’t solved the others.
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Thank you for reading! Share how you did it today in the comments.
