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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Sunday, June 30 (game #385)
By Marc McLaren,
17 hours ago
And so the weekend comes to an end with a really difficult Connections puzzle. Or is it? Well, I certainly struggled, but maybe you won't. If you do, there are hints below.
PURPLE: HOT TUB COMPONENTS FILTER, HEATER, JET, PUMP
My rating: Hard
My score: 3 mistakes
Woah! This was a tough one. A really tough one. I made three mistakes in solving it, and frankly it was a lot harder than the ones I failed last week. The problem here (for me at least) was that so many of the possible answers could have gone together. That's always (or often) a factor in Connections, of course, but today the problem was particularly pronounced.
For instance, I guessed trees first, putting CHERRY, ASH, CHESTNUT and GUM together. No dice. So I tried heat sources, with WOOD, ELECTRIC, GAS and HEATER. But wrong again. And then I thought maybe there was something about hair color: CHESTNUT, EBONY, ASH, CHERRY. But that was incorrect too.
After many minutes of deliberation, I put the 'Hot tub components' group together and solved what was supposedly the most difficult of the four. Then revisited the fuel-related answers and worked out that charcoal finished that group.
Next, I focused on ADAGE and MAXIM, which I could see must go together and which didn't fit elsewhere so easily. I thought maybe SAW might be connected, then realized that 'old chestnut' also fit, and solved the yellow group. And that left the blue trees group for me to solve by default; my missing answer earlier had been EBONY, which I knew was a type of wood so I don't know why I didn't think of it at the time.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 29 June, game #384)
BLUE: PLACED DOWN LAID, PLACED, PUT, SAT
GREEN: CONNECT COUPLE, TIE, UNITE, WED
YELLOW: HOMOPHONES TO, TOO, TUE, TWO
PURPLE: ___FLOWER MAY, SUN, WALL, WILD
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
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