If you're like me, you'll find today's connections difficult. But it's also possible that I was just having a bad day. Read on to see how I fared in the game and to take advantage of my tips if you need them.
What should you do once you're done? Play more word games, of course. I also have articles with daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers, and Quordle hints and answers if you need help with those topics as well.
SPOILER WARNING: Below you'll find information about today's NYT Connections, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Set #390): Words of the Day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- AND IN
- BOND
- ANGRY
- FORCE
- EURO
- Oh
- Q
- FORTUNE
- LONG
- METER
- K
- PINE TREE
- GUM
- NATURE
- DESIRE
- MONEYPENNY
Today's NYT Connections (Set #390): Clue #1: Group Clues
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Want
- Green: Brilliant reading
- Blue: The names…
- Purple: They come before a musical genre.
Need more clues?
We're now in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…
Today's NYT Connections (Game #390): Clue #2: Group Answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: LONGING
- GREEN: MAGAZINES
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN BOND FILMS
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT PRECEDE “POP” IN MUSICAL GENRES
Well, the answers are below, so DON'T CONTINUE FOLLOWING THE PAGE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Today's NYT Connections (Set #390): The Answers
The answers to today's Connections game, number 390, are…
- YELLOW: LONGING WISH, LONG, PINE, YEN
- GREEN: MAGAZINES FORTUNE, MADNESS, NATURE, OR
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN BOND FILMS BOND, M, MONEY, PENNY, Q
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT PRECEDE “POP” IN MUSICAL GENRES BUBBLE, EURO, K, POWER
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
Yesterday's connection was relatively easy; today's is the opposite.
Once again, it was short words that confused me, or in this case single letters: Q, M, K and O all appear here. Two of them were obvious, at least, with the words BOND and MONEYPENNY joining Q and M to form a 007-themed group (blue). The yellow one wasn't too bad: they were simple synonyms for YEARN (DESIRE, YEN, PINE, LONG).
The green group tripped me up, though. I saw that FORTUNE, NATURE, and MAD were magazines, but I couldn't identify the fourth one. My apologies to Oprah Winfrey, but it never occurred to me that O magazine was the fourth. I thought of three alternative answers before guessing that one and solving the puzzle with no room to spare.
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Yesterday's NYT Connections Answers (Thursday, July 4, Issue #389)
- GREEN: THINGS STORED BY A WEB BROWSER CACHE, COOKIES, DATA, HISTORY
- BLUE: SINGLE ROTATION CYCLE, TURN, REVOLUTION, SPIN
- YELLOW: ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP ATTRACTION, CHEMISTRY, FIREWORKS, SPARKS
- PURPLE: WORDS BEFORE “BELL” BAR, DINNER, FREEDOM, TINKER
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
The plus side is that you don't technically need to solve the last one, as you'll be able to answer it by process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a bit of wiggle room.
However, it is a bit more complex than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trick you with tricks. For example, beware of homophones and other wordplay that could disguise the answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
