You are now reading this now and we all know what that means. You’re stuck on today New York Times Connections puzzle. If you can’t guess groups this time, you’re not the only one. But luckily I have hints (and spoilers if you want them) to help you by coming from Sunday: #791. Don’t feel bad to take a look – today’s words were difficult.
Because we are in this together, I will share how I did it every day. Today I made a few mistakes and I actually thought of purple for yellow. Blue was definitely the easiest for me today, followed by Green.
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: Power of conviction
Green Group: Gather
Blue group: Something made up/not real
Purple group: Related to your body
Here is one word of each group:
Yellow group hint word: Pull
Green group hint word: Group
Blue Group Hint Word: Historical
Purple group hint word: Chemical
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: Influence
Green Group: Collect
Blue group: Types of fiction
Purple group: Starting with math and science lessons, in short
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: Influence (juice, pull, waving weight)
Green Group: Amass (cluster, collecting, concentrating, group)
Blue group: Types of fiction (fan, historical, pulp, science)
Purple group: Starting with mathematics and science lessons, in short (biopic, calcium, chemise, triglyceride)
My results today
This time I finally didn’t solve purple last! I really thought it would be ‘things related to the body’, so I think I was close by. For Blue I thought of “types of films”, which was not far away – I originally had biopic but exchanged it for Pulp.
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Thank you for reading! Share how you did it today in the comments.
