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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, May 4 (game #693).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
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 #694) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- TORPEDO
- BAT
- COAST
- LEVEL
- САРЕ
- BATON
- PLATEAU
- HOAGIE
- SETTLE
- CRUISE
- CIGAR
- CASTLE
- FLOAT
- FLATTEN
- FANG
- DRIFT
NYT Connections today (game #694) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Easy street
- GREEN: Resident of Transylvania
- BLUE: Same as it ever was
- PURPLE: A shape in common
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 #694) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: GLIDE
- GREEN: ASSOCIATED WITH COUNT DRACULA
- BLUE: STOP CHANGING
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT ARE LONG AND CYLINDRICAL
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #694) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #694, are…
- YELLOW: GLIDE COAST, CRUISE, DRIFT, FLOAT
- GREEN: ASSOCIATED WITH COUNT DRACULA BAT, CAPE, CASTLE, FANG
- BLUE: STOP CHANGING FLATTEN, LEVEL, PLATEAU, SETTLE
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT ARE LONG AND CYLINDRICAL BATON, CIGAR, HOAGIE, TORPEDO
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
It probably says a lot about me that I didn’t get the purple group because I thought we were searching for bread products, as in the TORPEDO roll, a HOAGIE sandwich… er, to be honest it wasn’t a long sidebar
Still, this was one of those rare easy Connections days – a CRUISE around four groups you could say, rather than something to sink your metaphorical FANGs into.
I’m pretty sure I got ASSOCIATED WITH COUNT DRACULA not because of Transylvania’s famous resident, but because I’ve been watching a lot of What We Do In The Shadows. One of the greatest TV comedies of the past decade imho, about a group of four vampires who live in Staten Island. It’s wonderful.
My favourite WWDITS character is Colin Robinson, an energy vampire, who prefers to drain mental energy from his victims rather than blood – making him far more believable than the regular type of vampire. We all know someone like Colin.
Having said that, doing a daily column about Connections is exactly the kind of job Colin Robinson would do. Er…
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, May 4, game #693)
- YELLOW: QUALITIES OF OVERCOOKED MEAT CHEWY, DRY, STRINGY, TOUGH
- GREEN: PLAY SOME ELECTRIC GUITAR JAM, NOODLE, SHRED, SOLO
- BLUE: INGREDIENTS IN BUBBLE TEA BOBA, MILK, SUGAR, TEA
- PURPLE: PLANETS/ DWARF PLANET WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED BLUTO, CARS, DARTH, GENUS
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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