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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, July 20 (game #405)
By Marc McLaren,
1 day ago
It's the weekend! And that means you have another chance to solve a weekend Connections puzzle: they're the same as the weekday Connections puzzles, but on a weekend. Yay! Read on for my hints and commentary on today's game.
PURPLE: WRAPPED THINGS BURRITO, GIFT, MUMMY, SPRAIN
My rating: Easy
My score: 1 mistake
There was more classic misdirection from the NYT in today's Connections puzzle, and it cost me a guess early on. I put together GIFT, TALENT, INSTINCT and FLAIR but GIFT was not something that went with the others (even though it could have done). Nor did it go with PRESENT, which was instead used in the context of 'LEAD, AS A TV PROGRAM', together with ANCHOR, HOST and MODERATE.
Instead, GIFT was part of the purple group, which for once I solved myself rather than only getting it by default. This was a rather nice one of 'WRAPPED THINGS', together with BURRITO, MUMMY and SPRAIN; you couldn't get a more diverse Connections group, but also one that totally makes sense once you solved it.
BLUE: GAS PUMP OPTIONS DIESEL, PLUS, PREMIUM, REGULAR
PURPLE: ___ TABLE COFFEE, PERIODIC, POOL, WATER
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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