NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Friday, July 26 (Contest #411)
It’s the last Connections puzzle of the workweek, and it’s another one that’s pretty tough. What a surprise, huh? 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 #411) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- LIAR
- CON
- BACK
- DOWN
- SUPPORT
- SYMBOL
- MINUS
- OUTLOOK
- CHAMPION
- STRIKE
- THING
- RIGHT
- BASE
- UPWARDS
- RECOMMEND
- LEFT
NYT Connections Today (Contest #411) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Which way?
- Vegetable: You have this
- Blue: Bad thing
- Purple: Sounds like a noisemaker
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 #411) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: BASIC GUIDELINES
- GREEN: IN FAVOR OF
- BLUE: DISADVANTAGE
- PURPLE: INSTRUMENT HOMOPHONES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #411) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #411, are…
- YELLOW: BASIC GUIDELINES DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, UP
- GREEN: IN FAVOR OF BACK, CHAMPION, ENHANCE, SUPPORT
- BLUE: DISADVANTAGE CON, DING, MINUS, STRIKE
- PURPLE: INSTRUMENT HOMOPHONES BASE, LIAR, LOOT, SYSTEM
- My score: Difficult
- My score: 3 mistakes
This Connections is a real mixed bag, with one really easy one and one that is fairly simple, but two really hard ones. Or at least that was my experience. I got the green and yellow ones easily enough, but just couldn’t make another group from the eight remaining answers and used three of my four guesses to finish the game.
Eventually I realized that BASE, LIAR, LOOT, and SYMBOL were all homophones for musical instruments – it was SYMBOL that gave it away – which meant I solved the blue ‘drawback’ group by default. In retrospect, it may not have been that hard, but DING in particular just didn’t occur to me as something that was in any way aligned with CON, MINUS, and STRIKE…
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Thursday, July 25, Contest #410)
- YELLOW: OLD WRITING SURFACES CLAY, PAPYRUS, PARCHMENT, WAX
- GREEN: LEAD, AS A TV PROGRAM ANCHOR, HOST, MODERATE, PRESENT
- BLUE: NATURAL POWER FACULTY, FLAIR, INSTINCT, TALENT
- PURPLE: COMPLICATED THINGS BURRITO, GIFT, MUMMY, SPREAD
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.
