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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 Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, April 17 (game #676).
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 #677) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- GOOD
- BOY
- BANJO
- BIRDS
- NOSE
- MAN
- POSSESSION
- GOODNESS
- BELONGING
- HAUNTING
- APPLE
- CARD
- SHINING
- EFFECT
- WOW
- EXORCIST
NYT Connections today (game #677) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Oh!
- GREEN: Scary films
- BLUE: Use your finger
- PURPLE: Add a letter to “your stuff”
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 #677) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: INTERJECTIONS BOY, GOODNESS, MAN, WOW
- GREEN: HORROR MOVIES, WITH “THE” BIRDS, EXORCIST, HAUNTING, SHINING
- BLUE: THINGS YOU CAN PICK APPLE, BANJO, CARD, NOSE
- PURPLE: PERSONAL PROPERTY MINUS “S” BELONGING, EFFECT, GOOD, POSSESSION
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #677) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #677, are…
- YELLOW: INTERJECTIONS BOY, GOODNESS, MAN, WOW
- GREEN: HORROR MOVIES, WITH “THE” BIRDS, EXORCIST, HAUNTING, SHINING
- BLUE: THINGS YOU CAN PICK APPLE, BANJO, CARD, NOSE
- PURPLE: PERSONAL PROPERTY MINUS “S” BELONGING, EFFECT, GOOD, POSSESSION
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
Seeing SHINING, EXORCIST, and BIRDS was the easy part. Deciding on what was the fourth classic horror film was the hard bit and for a while I thought that I was being tricked into a rogue group.
I plumped for HAUNTING as the final HORROR MOVIES WITH “THE” as a total guess because it sounded a more likely bet than POSSESSION and BELONGING – both of which are movie titles too it turns out.
Also, films beginning with The was a Strands puzzle theme this week, and it included The Shining — is Connections running out of ideas to torment us with?
After a brief dalliance with thinking there was a group describing a key scene in the film Deliverance (BANJO, BOY) I enjoyed the thrill of actually getting a purple group without it being sheer luck.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 17 April, game #676)
- YELLOW: CENTRAL SECTION OF THE BODY CORE, MIDRIFF, TORSO, TRUNK
- GREEN: COMPONENTS OF A PIZZA CHEESE, CRUST, SAUCE, TOPPINGS
- BLUE: UNITS OF BEER CASE, FORTY, GROWLER, SIX-PACK
- PURPLE: BASEBALL GREATS BONDS, MANTLE, TROUT, YOUNG
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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