NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Wednesday, July 3 (Contest #388)
Today we serve up another moderately difficult Connections puzzle; not impossibly difficult, but not exactly easy either. I’ve collected some hints below 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 #388) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- BIRTHDAY
- MARBLE
- WRENCH
- SPECIFIC
- CURVE BALL
- WORKPLACE
- PARTY
- LB
- Spitball
- MATERIAL
- REAL
- TEMPER TANTRUM
- STRONG
- BRAINSTORM
- CRUMB
- IDEAS
NYT Connections Today (Contest #388) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Creative thinking
- Vegetable: It exists
- Blue: Let them eat it
- Purple: You can throw them into a sentence
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 #388) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DEVELOP, AS IDEAS
- GREEN: TANGIBLE
- BLUE: TYPES OF CAKE
- PURPLE: THINGS YOU CAN THROW, IN METAPHORS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #388) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #388, are…
- YELLOW: DEVELOP, AS IDEAS BRAINSTORMING, IDEA, SPITBALLING, WORKSHOP
- GREEN: TANGIBLE CONCRETE, MATERIAL, REAL, SOLID
- BLUE: TYPES OF CAKE BIRTHDAY, CRUMBLE, MARBLE, POUND
- PURPLE: THINGS YOU CAN THROW, IN METAPHORS CURVEBALL, PARTY, TANTRAGE, WRENCH
- My score: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
A moderate Connections puzzle consisting of a few groups of synonyms, a group of cake types and one, the harder purple, metaphor. I don’t know if I would have gotten that last one, to be honest, but luckily I didn’t have to, as I had solved the other three.
Not that they were all easy. Cake should have been – I love cake and have eaten a lot of it in my life – but I have never heard of CRUMB cake and I only recently made the connection between MARBLE and POUND. Now that I know what crumb cake is, I think I am going to find one and eat it – it looks delicious.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Tuesday, July 2, Contest #387)
- YELLOW: PACK (STORE) FOR FUTURE USE SQUIRREL, HIDE, STORE, STORAGE
- GREEN: ADJECTIVES FOR ASSETS SOLID, FROZEN, LIQUID, TOXIC
- BLUE: LATIN WORDS PLEASE NOTE, ERGO, QUID, VOX
- PURPLE: ___ GAME ARCADE, DEBT, NUMBERS, SQUID
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.
