NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Tuesday, July 23 (Contest #408)
Are you up for a challenge? Then check out today’s NYT Connections game, which Certainly that. Below are 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 #408) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- HOT DOG
- WORD
- ANIMAL
- TWEET
- PEEKING
- PORK
- PEACOCK
- QUACK
- HAM
- SHAME
- SPEED
- SOUND
- FRAUD
- NOISE
- SHOW BOOT
- CHARLATAN
NYT Connections Today (Contest #408) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Don’t trust them!
- Vegetable: Say something
- Blue: Look at me, look at me
- Purple: Card characters
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 #408) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CHEATER
- GREEN: VERDICT
- BLUE: SOMEONE WHO LOVES TO SHOW OFF
- PURPLE: LOONEY TUNES CHARACTERS MINUS ONE LETTER
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #408) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #408, are…
- YELLOW: CHEATER CHARLATAN, FRAUD, QUACKER, DECEIT
- GREEN: VERDICT SOUND, BEEP, SOUND, WORD
- BLUE: SOMEONE WHO LOVES TO SHOW OFF HAM, HOTDOG, PEACOCK, SHOWBOAT
- PURPLE: LOONEY TUNES CHARACTERS MINUS ONE LETTER BUG, PORK, SPEED, TWEET
- My score: Difficult
- My score: 3 mistakes
The purple group in today’s Connections is hands down one of my favorite word challenges ever. Not only do they have Looney Tunes characters BUGS (Bunny), TWEETY (Pie), PORKY (Pig), and SPEEDY (Gonzales), which would be fun enough on its own, but those characters each have one less letter for BUG, SPEED, TWEET, and PORK. And I solved it—well, kind of. What I meant by that was that after I solved the other three groups, I stared at it for hours until I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and realized what it was, even though I didn’t have to.
The game up until then hadn’t been easy either, with HAM, HOT DOG, SHOWBOAT and PEACOCK also confusing me. I didn’t know HOT DOG was a description of a show off…
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Monday, July 22, Contest #407)
- YELLOW: DOMAIN OF EXPERTISE AREA, DOMAIN, FIELD, SPHERE
- GREEN: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS VIOLIN, HORN, BLOCK, TRIANGLE
- BLUE: USED TO DIRECTION TRAFFIC BARRIER, CONE, FLAG, TORCH
- PURPLE: FOOD ___ CHAIN, FIGHT, PROCESSOR, PYRAMID
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.
