Today we're faced with another Connections puzzle of moderate difficulty – not impossible to solve, but not easy either. I've compiled some clues below, 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 #388): Words of the Day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- BIRTHDAY
- MARBLE
- WRENCH
- CONCRETE
- CURVE BALL
- WORKSHOP
- PARTY
- POUND
- FOAM BALL
- MATERIAL
- REAL
- TANTRUM
- SOLID
- GREAT IDEA
- CRUMB
- DEVISE
Today's NYT Connections (Set #388): Clue #1: Group Clues
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Creative thinking
- Green: Exists
- Blue: Let them eat it
- Purple: You can include them in a sentence.
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 #388): Clue #2: Group Answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DEVELOP, LIKE IDEAS
- GREEN: TANGIBLE
- BLUE: TYPES OF CAKE
- PURPLE: THINGS YOU CAN THROW, IN METAPHORS
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 #388): The Answers
The answers to today's Connections game, number 388, are…
- YELLOW: DEVELOP, LIKE IDEAS BRAINSTORMING, IDEAS, SPIRIT BALLS, WORKSHOP
- GREEN: TANGIBLE CONCRETE, MATERIAL, REAL, SOLID
- BLUE: TYPES OF CAKE BIRTHDAY, CRUMBLE, MARBLE, LIBRA
- PURPLE: THINGS YOU CAN THROW, IN METAPHORS CURVE BALL, PARTY, TANTRUMS, WRENCH
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
A moderate connection puzzle consisting of a couple of synonym groups, a cake type group, and one, the more difficult purple one, of metaphors. I don't know if I could have solved that last one, to be honest, but fortunately I didn't need to, given that I'd solved the other three.
Not that any of them were easy as such. The cake should have been (I love cake and have eaten a lot of it in my life), but I had never heard of a crumb cake and didn't make the connection between MARBLE and POUND until much later. However, now that I know what crumb cake is, I think I'm going to go find one and eat it, because it looks delicious.
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Yesterday's NYT Connections Answers (Tuesday, July 2, Issue #387)
- YELLOW: SAVE FOR FUTURE USE SQUIRREL, STORE, SAVE, SAVE
- GREEN: ADJECTIVES FOR ASSETS FIXED, FROZEN, LIQUID, TOXIC
- BLUE: LATIN WORDS WARNING, ERGO, QUID, VOX
- PURPLE: ___ GAME ARCADE, GUILT, NUMBERS, SQUID
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.
