If you’re facing a challenging day with today’s Connections puzzle, you’re not alone. Don’t worry, I’ve been there too. Check out how my game went and get some hints if you need a little help.
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SPOILER WARNING: Details about NYT Connections for today are coming up, so proceed with caution if you want to keep the answers a mystery.
NYT Connections today (game #390) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- YEN
- BOND
- MAD
- POWER
- EURO
- O
- Q
- FORTUNE
- LONG
- M
- K
- PINE
- BUBBLEGUM
- NATURE
- DESIRE
- MONEYPENNY
NYT Connections today (game #390) – hint #1 – group hints
Looking for clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Want
- Green: Glossy read
- Blue: The name’s…
- Purple: They go before a music genre
Need additional clues?
We’re diving into spoiler territory now, but keep reading if you want to know the four theme answers for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #390) – hint #2 – group answers
Curious about the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: YEARN
- GREEN: MAGAZINES
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN BOND MOVIES
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT PRECEDE “POP” IN MUSIC GENRES
Answers are below, so refrain from scrolling further if you want to solve them on your own.
NYT Connections today (game #390) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #390, are…
- YELLOW: YEARN DESIRE, LONG, PINE, YEN
- GREEN: MAGAZINES FORTUNE, MAD, NATURE, O
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN BOND MOVIES BOND, M, MONEYPENNY, Q
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT PRECEDE “POP” IN MUSIC GENRES BUBBLEGUM, EURO, K, POWER
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
Yesterday’s Connections was relatively easy; today’s is anything but that.
Once again, it was short words that confused me, or in this case single letters: Q, M, K, and O all feature here. Two of them were obvious, at least, with the words BOND and MONEYPENNY joining Q and M for a 007-themed group (blue). The yellow one wasn’t too bad: this was simple synonyms for YEARN (DESIRE, YEN, PINE, LONG).
However, the green group really tripped me up. I spotted that FORTUNE, NATURE, and MAD were all magazines, but I couldn’t identify the fourth. Apologies to Oprah Winfrey, but it never occurred to me that O magazine would be the fourth. I went through three alternative answers before guessing that and solving the puzzle with no room to spare.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 4 July, game #389)
- GREEN: THINGS STORED BY A WEB BROWSER CACHE, COOKIES, DATA, HISTORY
- BLUE: SINGLE ROTATION CYCLE, LAP, REVOLUTION, TURN
- YELLOW: ROMANTIC RAPPORT ATTRACTION, CHEMISTRY, FIREWORKS, SPARKS
- PURPLE: WORDS BEFORE “BELL” BAR, DINNER, LIBERTY, TINKER
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.