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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 Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, June 14 (game #734).
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 #735) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- FATHER
- LANGUAGE
- SODA
- BLAST
- SMOKING
- MUD
- ACTION
- BURST
- CRUD
- POPULAR
- FUDGE
- BREW
- ROCKET FUEL
- NUDITY
- JAVA
- CURSES
NYT Connections today (game #735) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Cafe culture
- GREEN: Low level anger
- BLUE: PG rated
- PURPLE: Different meanings for a word that rhymes with “stop”
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 #735) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SLANG FOR COFFEE
- GREEN: “AW, HECK!”
- BLUE: CONSIDERATIONS FOR MOVIE RATINGS
- PURPLE: WHAT “POP” MIGHT MEAN
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #735) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #735, are…
- YELLOW: SLANG FOR COFFEE BREW, JAVA, MUD, ROCKET FUEL
- GREEN: “AW, HECK!” BLAST, CRUD, CURSES, FUDGE
- BLUE: CONSIDERATIONS FOR MOVIE RATINGS ACTION, LANGUAGE, NUDITY, SMOKING
- PURPLE: WHAT “POP” MIGHT MEAN BURST, FATHER, POPULAR, SODA
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Fail
I used up three lives trying to pin down SLANG FOR COFFEE today. I knew that BREW, JAVA, and ROCKET FUEL had coffee in common, but had no clue on the fourth and had never heard of anyone calling it MUD.
I’ve since learned it’s a very basic method of brewing coffee that means everything has to settle before you drink it. For a while I thought that MUD and FUDGE could form a group as they are both words that feature in famous deserts.
Four words eliminated, WHAT “POP” MIGHT MEAN came together after a shuffle put FATHER, POPULAR and SODA beside each other and I guessed what we were looking for.
From here, though, my good fortune deserted me and I failed to collect “AW, HECK!”, thinking instead that we were looking for something to do with emojis.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, June 14, game #734)
- YELLOW: GODDESS DIVA, ICON, LEGEND, QUEEN
- GREEN: ELEMENTS OF A CLASSIC “MOM” TATTOO ARROW, HEART, MOM, RIBBON
- BLUE: DOGS OF THE SCREEN ASTRO, BLUE, HOOCH, TOTO
- PURPLE: __ TERRIER BORDER, BOSTON, BULL, RAT
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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