NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Monday, July 8 (Contest #393)
The week starts off with a simple Connections puzzle that doesn’t pose too many dangers. That doesn’t make it easy, though, because the NYT word game is devilishly difficult even on a good day. Read on for some hints.
What do you do when you’re done? Well, play some word games of course. I also have daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help with those too.
SPOILER ALERT: Below is information about today’s NYT Connections. So don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #393) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- DOG
- TRICK
- SPIRIT
- OZONE
- OFTEN
- WISER
- SHALL
- VISIT
- FREQUENT
- DISSOLVE
- BACKGROUND
- TIP
- GRAIN
- SUGGESTION
- FREIGHT
- TO PROTECT
NYT Connections Today (Contest #393) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Try this
- Vegetable: Hold on
- Blue: Be here now
- Purple: Hidden figures
Do you need more pointers?
We’re really getting into 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 #393) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: A LITTLE ADVICE
- GREEN: CONSTANTNESS
- BLUE: SPEND TIME ON
- PURPLE: WORDS ENDING WITH NUMBERS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #393) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #393, are…
- YELLOW: A LITTLE ADVICE HINT, SUGGESTION, TIP, TRICK
- GREEN: CONSTANTNESS GRIT, RESOLVE, SPIRIT, WILL
- BLUE: SPEND TIME ON FREQUENT, PURSUING, PROTECTING, VISITING
- PURPLE: WORDS ENDING WITH NUMBERS DOG, CARGO, OFTEN, OZONE
- My score: Simple
- My score: Perfect
The key to connections is often to think of the words in multiple ways. By that I mean that they can be grouped together with others to form a related group, or that they can all be synonyms for another word, or that they can be homophones, or that they all have one common letter that comes before or after them. There’s also another type that sometimes shows up: hidden words within.
It’s important to always keep this in mind when solving, because it will rarely work to just look for obvious groups. For example, today the green group, which I solved first, was indeed synonymous with power. The yellow was similar – ‘bits of advice’, and four words that meant that. Blue was also along those lines: ‘Spend time at’. But purple was a different story. That was one of the hidden word varieties; in this case each of the four words contained a number, for example OZONE has ONE in it, CANINE has NINE. Clever, huh? I would never have made that connection if I hadn’t thought laterally today, so that’s an approach I’ll always try to take.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Sunday, July 7, Contest #392)
- YELLOW: CHANGE OF STATES OF MATTER CONDENSING, FREEZING, MELTING, EVAPORATION
- GREEN: REPLACEMENT ALTERNATIVE, BACKUP, COVERAGE, SUB
- BLUE: SLANGY NAMES FOR PROFESSIONS COPPER, HACKING, SHRINK, PACK
- PURPLE: MARIAH CAREY NUMBER ONE HITS FANTASY, HERO, SWEETHEART, ONE DAY
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games from the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a bit harder, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically have to solve the last question, because you can answer it by elimination. Plus, you can make a maximum of four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.
It is a bit more complicated than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that can obscure the answers.
It is free to play via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
