NYT Connections today hints and answers for Tuesday, July 9 (game #394)

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Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:02:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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Today's Connections is a little more difficult than yesterday's, which makes it very tricky indeed. But don't panic I've got some hints for you below.

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 #394) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are SCRUB MAZE REGISTER SHOCK HOG LOG MOP CHEER TANGLE WEED RECORD FUND FRIEND MANE TRIMMER JOURNAL NYT Connections today (game #394) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Take note of this Green: Needs a good barber Blue: Televi-ion cla--ic- Purple: Go after shrubbery

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 #394) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: CHRONICLE GREEN: MESS OF HAIR BLUE: TV SHOWS MINUS S PURPLE: WORDS AFTER HEDGE

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #394) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #394, are YELLOW: CHRONICLE JOURNAL, LOG, RECORD, REGISTER GREEN: MESS OF HAIR MANE, MOP, SHOCK, TANGLE BLUE: TV SHOWS MINUS S CHEER, FRIEND, SCRUB, WEED PURPLE: WORDS AFTER HEDGE FUND, HOG, MAZE, TRIMMER My rating: Moderate My score: Perfect

I'll state right away that I'm a BIG fan of the blue group in today's Connections. This is exactly the kind of challenge I'm looking for - it requires lateral thinking once again, plus a bit of general knowledge, and is deeply satisfying to solve. We've seen a few of these before, and hopefully will see many more.

It was also a pivotal solve for me, because I was completely stumped by the final two groups, having completed the two easier ones (yellow and green) without any issues. With hindsight, I should have spotted the 'hedge' connection in the purple group, but for some reason it escaped my mind; the term HEDGE MAZE is not really a common one, so maybe that was I didn't think to try it. Anyway, it didn't matter in the end, because after a long period looking I realized that FRIEND, SCRUB, WEED and CHEER could all have an S added to the end to make four popular TV shows and completed the puzzle.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, 8 July, game #393) YELLOW: BIT OF ADVICE
POINTER, SUGGESTION, TIP, TRICK GREEN: FORTITUDE GRIT, RESOLVE, SPIRIT, WILL BLUE: SPEND TIME AT FREQUENT, HAUNT, PATRONIZE, VISIT PURPLE: WORDS ENDING IN NUMBERS CANINE, FREIGHT, OFTEN, OZONE 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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