NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Tuesday, July 30 (game #415)

Today's Connections puzzle from the NYT is not the most difficult ever, but you may still find some hints to be helpful. If that's the case, read on…

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #415) - today's words

Today's NYT Connections words are…

• SUPER
• COMPLEX
• EXPAND
• FACILITY
• ELABORATE
• SWELL
• GIFT
• BLOCK
• COMPOUND
• FLAIR
• NEAT
• EXPLAIN
• KNACK
• DEVELOPMENT
• SPECIFY
• NIFTY

NYT Connections today (game #415) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• Yellow: Just great
• Green: Give me more
• Blue: You've got talent
• Purple: Municipal area?

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #415) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: PEACHY KEEN
• GREEN: PROVIDE MORE DETAILS
• BLUE: ABILITY TO DO SOMETHING WELL
• PURPLE: GROUP OF BUILDINGS

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #415) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #415, are…

• YELLOW: PEACHY KEEN NEAT, NIFTY, SUPER, SWELL
• GREEN: PROVIDE MORE DETAILS ELABORATE, EXPAND, EXPLAIN, SPECIFY
• BLUE: ABILITY TO DO SOMETHING WELL FACILITY, FLAIR, GIFT, KNACK
• PURPLE: GROUP OF BUILDINGS BLOCK, COMPLEX, COMPOUND, DEVELOPMENT

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

This may well be the easiest Connections puzzle I've ever solved. If not, it's certainly the one I solved in the shortest time: less than two minutes, from start to finish. And unusually, my game began with the purple group. Maybe that's why I found the rest of it easy; with the supposedly toughest game out of the way, it only got easier from there.

There was misdirection here, of course, so maybe I just got lucky. I suspect others will find this to be a rather simple one too, though.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, 29 July, game #414)

• YELLOW: STADIUMS ARENA, BOWL, COLISEUM, DOME
• GREEN: STREET SUFFIXES ALLEY, COURT, DRIVE, LANE
• BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH SCALES FISH, JUSTICE, LIBRA, SOLFEGE
• PURPLE: THINGS WITH SPOUTS FOUNTAIN, GUTTER, TEAPOT, WHALE

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.