NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Friday, July 12 (Contest #397)
It’s the end of the week, but Connections is barreling along like a word-crushing behemoth. Need some help with today’s game? Read on.
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 #397) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- FOREIGN
- LIBRARY
- CHOCOLATE
- SOAP
- PIGEON
- MOTHER
- RED
- LABORATORY
- BLACK
- GRAY
- FITNESS CENTER
- PEACE
- GOLDEN
- EVEN
- CRAZY
- AUDITORIUM
NYT Connections Today (Contest #397) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Not the classroom, but the…
- Vegetable: Spin the wheel
- Blue: White bird link
- Purple: empty water bird
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 #397) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SCHOOL FACILITIES
- GREEN: ROULETTE BETS
- BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH “PIGEON”
- PURPLE: ___ GOOSE
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #397) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #397, are…
- YELLOW: SCHOOL FACILITIES AUDITORIUM, GYM, LAB, LIBRARY
- GREEN: ROULETTE BETTING BLACK, EVEN, ODD, RED
- BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH “PIGEON” CHOCOLATE, PEACE, DOVE, SOAP
- PURPLE: ___ GOOSE GOLDEN, GREY, MOTHER, STUPID
- My score: Moderate
- My score: Failure
If I learned one thing from today’s Connections, it’s this: don’t play if you’re hungover. Only a slight one, admittedly, but still enough to throw me off. Although I’m not sure I would have solved it anyway. The first group, ‘School Facilities’, should have been available, but it would never have occurred to me to associate an AUDITORIUM with a school. Maybe not a LAB either; I think UK schools in the 80s were perhaps slightly less well-equipped than the average American high school…
I absolutely should have gotten the green ROULETTE BETS group, but got stuck on colors. I thought there might be a labrador retriever connection, possibly since I have one myself, so I played various combinations of RED, GOLD, BLACK, CHOCOLATE, and GREY until I exhausted all my guesses. I just couldn’t see what other connection there was. I would never have gotten the “Dove” group, since I’ve never heard of dove chocolate, and while I could have gotten the _Goose group, I just didn’t see that connection either. Bad form.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Thursday, July 11, Contest #396)
- YELLOW: SCHOOL SUPPLIES PEN, RULER, SCISSORS, TAPE
- GREEN: FUNDAMENTAL ESSENTIAL, KEY, CHAPTER, CHAPTER
- BLUE: TRANSFER GIVE, TRADE, PASS ON, SENDING
- PURPLE: ILLUMINATING SIGNS APPLAUSE, CLOSE, RECORD, RUN
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.
