NYT Connections today hints and answers for Saturday, July 20 (game #405)
Date:
Fri, 19 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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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.
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 #405) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)
Today's NYT Connections words are WAX MUMMY GIFT ANCHOR BURRITO PRESENT CLAY PAPYRUS SPRAIN FLAIR MODERATE TALENT INSTINCT PARCHMENT HOST FACULTY NYT Connections today (game #405) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Just add stylus Green: Small screen star Blue: Innate Purple: We got it covered
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 #405) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: ANCIENT WRITING SURFACES GREEN: LEAD, AS A TV PROGRAM BLUE: NATURAL ABILITY PURPLE: WRAPPED THINGS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #405) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today's Connections, game #405, are YELLOW: ANCIENT WRITING SURFACES CLAY, PAPYRUS, PARCHMENT, WAX GREEN: LEAD, AS A TV PROGRAM ANCHOR, HOST, MODERATE, PRESENT BLUE: NATURAL ABILITY FACULTY, FLAIR, INSTINCT,
TALENT 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.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, 19 July, game #404) YELLOW: ROMANTIC PARTNER FLAME, LOVER, STEADY, SWEETHEART GREEN: INSULT BURN, DIG, JAB, SLIGHT 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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