by Need help with today New York Times Connections Puzzle? You are lucky because I have hints (and spoilers if you want them) to help you get the puzzle on Wednesday: #794. Don’t feel bad to take a look – these puzzles are pretty difficult.
Because we are in this together, I will share how I did it every day. I am on a role in guessing the purple group before the end. Today it was the first group I solved. I did make a few mistakes before I sort it out.
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: Easy to keep someone’s attention
Green Group: What you might find on the back of a book
Blue group: Related to female pop culture
Purple group: Bright lights in the air at night
Here is one word of each group:
Yellow group hint word: Charm
Green group hint word: Quote
Blue Group Hint Word: Go-Go
Purple group hint word: Fish
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: Fascinate
Green Group: Extract
Blue group: Member of a girls’ group
Purple group: Star ____
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: Captivate (charm, access, rivet, tension)
Green Group: Excerpt (clip, extract, passage, quote)
Blue group: Member of a Girls Group (Bangle, Chick, Go-Go, Supreme)
Purple group: Star ____ (plate, fish, gate, beaten)
My results today
Purple was easy to guess for me again, but not without making some mistakes first. I don’t think I had guessed blue without first resolving the others.
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Thank you for reading! Share how you did it today in the comments.
