NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Saturday, July 27 (Contest #412)
The weekend starts with a very difficult Connections puzzle, in my experience. You would want some hints for it – although luck was enough in my case…
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 #412) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- BEAR
- DETOUR
- RAY
- YIELD
- FOX
- TANGLE
- BACKWARDS
- SNACK
- TEN
- TO GENERATE
- EXCITION
- RIGHT
- PRODUCE
- ON SILK
- ARE
- BABY
NYT Connections Today (Contest #412) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Conversational distractions
- Vegetable: To make?
- Blue: Attractive person
- Purple: Represented by a specific letter
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 #412) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: OFF-TOPIC COMMENTS
- GREEN: CREATING, AS RESULTS
- BLUE: HOT
- PURPLE: WORDS ARE RESPECTED BY THE LETTER “R”
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #412) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #412, are…
- YELLOW: OFF-TOPIC COMMENTS DISTANCE, DETOUR, DEVIATION, TANGENT
- GREEN: CREATING, AS RESULTS CARRY, GENERATE, PRODUCE, REVENUE
- BLUE: HOT BABE, FOX, SNACK, TEN
- PURPLE: WORDS ARE RESPECTED BY THE LETTER “R” BE, BEAM, REVERSE, RIGHT
- My score: Difficult
- My score: Perfect
Fortunately, happiness is not a limited quality, in the sense that you can be very lucky one day and the next day too. That happens, right? Well, that’s a good thing, because otherwise I would have wasted a lifetime of happiness on today’s Connections.
The first two groups, which I solved in order of green (making results) and yellow (off-topic comments), were both easy, but the last two got a lot harder. They got so hard, in fact, that I literally had no idea what either answer could be. Zero. ZERO. I stared at the board for what seemed like hours, but in reality it was about 30 minutes, spread out over a few sessions, and finally decided to give up. I just couldn’t put FOX, RIGHT, REVERSE, BABE, SNACK, RADIUS, TEN, and ARE together into two groups. I couldn’t even find a few words that would go together.
Instead of quitting, I figured I should at least take a blind guess, so I went with BABE, FOX, TEN, and SNACK, completely at random. Or maybe my subconscious mind saw something my conscious mind didn’t? Either way, I guessed those four and… it was right! Now, I’ve never, ever heard the term SNACK used for a “hottie,” so I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m not complaining. And no, I wouldn’t have gotten the “R” group – that’s a tough one.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Friday, July 26, Contest #411)
- 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
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.
