NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, July 14 (Contest #399)
Today’s Connections is a good fit for a lazy Sunday – it’s not too difficult, so you can tackle it at your leisure over a big breakfast. But if you still need some hints, you’ll find them below.
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 #399) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- FINE
- BUTTER
- COIN
- DOUGH
- POINT
- LINE
- HONESTLY
- TRADE
- BRAZIL
- PINE
- FIELD
- FEATHER
- COMPANY
- TIP
- GOOD
- TOOTH
NYT Connections Today (Contest #399) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: They are all narrow
- Vegetable: What condition is it in?
- Blue: What kind of work do you do?
- Purple: Go for something you can eat
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 #399) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SLIM PROJECTIONS
- GREEN: CONDITIONS FOR COLLECTIBLES
- BLUE: PROFESSION
- PURPLE: WORDS FOR “NOT”
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #399) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #399, are…
- YELLOW: SLIM PROMINENT POINT, TOOTH, TIP
- GREEN: CONDITIONS FOR COLLECTIBLES FAIR, BEAUTIFUL, GOOD, MINT
- BLUE: PROFESSION BUSINESS, FIELD, LINE, TRADE
- PURPLE: WORDS FOR “NOT” BRAZIL, BUTTER, DOUGH, PINE
- My score: Simple
- My score: Perfect
It’s a rare day that I solve the purple group at all – and even rarer when I solve it before the others. Then again, it’s also not often that it’s as easy as today’s NUT-based connection. The second I saw both BRAZIL and PINE in the same puzzle, I knew there was a good chance they were linked, and when I saw DOUGH and BUTTER too, I was convinced.
It will come as no surprise that the other three groups were even easier. And for the first time I can honestly say that I would have chosen the last group (which was blue for me, ‘profession’) even if it had not been standard.
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Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Saturday, July 13, Contest #398)
- YELLOW: HUGE GIANTS, MAMMOTH, MONSTER, TITANIC
- GREEN: EMBODIMENT AVATAR, CHARACTER, FIGURE, PERSON
- BLUE: COMES ACROSS AS APPEAR, LOOK, SEEM, SOUND
- PURPLE: SILENT “T” CASTLE, PRESSURE, LISTEN, WITCH
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.
