NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Friday, July 5 (Contest #390)
If you’re anything like me, you’ll find today’s Connections tough. But it’s also possible that I was just having a bad day. Read on to see how my game went, and to take advantage of my hints if you need them.
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 #390) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- YEN
- BOND
- ANGRY
- CURRENT
- EURO
- O
- Q
- FORTUNE
- LONG
- M
- I
- PINE
- CHEWING GUM
- NATURE
- WISH
- MONEYPENNY
NYT Connections Today (Contest #390) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Want to
- Vegetable: Glossy reading
- Blue: The names…
- Purple: They go for a music genre
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 #390) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DESIRE
- GREEN: MAGAZINES
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN BOND FILMS
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT GO “POP” IN MUSIC GENRES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #390) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #390, are…
- YELLOW: DESIRE DESIRE, LONG, PAINBLOOD, YEN
- GREEN: MAGAZINES FORTUNE, MAD, NATURE, O
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN BOND FILMS BOND, M, MONEYPENNY, Q
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT GO “POP” IN MUSIC GENRES BUBBLEGUM, EURO, K, POWER
- My score: Difficult
- My score: 3 mistakes
Yesterday the connections were relatively simple, but today that is anything but the case.
Once again, it was short words that confused me, or in this case, single letters: Q, M, K, and O all show up here. Two of them were obvious, with the words BOND and MONEYPENNY combining Q and M for a 007 theme group (blue). The yellow wasn’t so bad: these were simple synonyms for YEARN (DESIRE, YEN, PINE, LONG).
The green group really confused me though. I saw that FORTUNE, NATURE and MAD were all magazines but I couldn’t identify the fourth one. Apologies to Oprah Winfrey, but it never occurred to me that O magazine would be the fourth. I tried three alternative answers before I guessed that and solved the puzzle with no room to spare.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Thursday, July 4, Contest #389)
- GREEN: THINGS SAVED BY A WEB BROWSER CACHE, COOKIES, DATA, HISTORY
- BLUE: SINGLE ROTATION CYCLE, ROUND, REVOLUTION, TURN
- YELLOW: ROMANTIC REPORT ATTRACTION, CHEMISTRY, FIREWORKS, SPARKS
- PURPLE: WORDS FOR “BELL” BAR, DINNER, FREEDOM, TINKER
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.
