NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Wednesday, July 31 (Contest #416)
Today’s NYT Connections answers aren’t that difficult, but below are tips if you need them anyway.
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 #416) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- SMALL
- BULLDOG
- PICKLES
- KISS
- HOAR
- RING
- STOUT
- NORS
- WISER
- HORN
- ROUGH
- AMBER
- DOORMAN
- HEES
- MIDDLE
- FRIES
NYT Connections Today (Contest #416) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Distinctive voice
- Vegetable: Numbers
- Blue: Beer types
- Purple: [A country] blank
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 #416) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: RASIG
- GREEN FINGERS
- BLUE: ALE STYLES
- PURPLE: FRENCH ___
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #416) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #416, are…
- YELLOW: RASIG MOUSTACHE, HEES, HEES, ROUGH
- GREEN FINGERS SMALL, MEDIUM, HAND, RING
- BLUE: ALE STYLES AMBER, PORTER, SOUR, STOUT
- PURPLE: FRENCH ___ BULLDOG, FRY, HORN, KISS
- My score: Simple
- My score: Perfect
This was another super-simple game of Connections; maybe the NYT thought we were having a hard time lately? I’m not complaining, because there’s a line that, if crossed, takes this game from pleasantly challenging to this-is-not-fun-at-all-please-make-it-go-away.
Today it is not like that at all. ‘Raspy’, the easiest yellow group, stood out immediately and I spotted blue shortly after. Green, the ‘fingers’ group, was also an easy one and I am pretty sure I would have solved purple if I had had to. I bet tomorrow’s is a lot harder.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Tuesday, July 30, Contest #415)
- YELLOW: PEACH NEAT, HANDY, SUPER, GREAT
- GREEN: GIVE MORE DETAILS ELABORATE, EXPAND, EXPLAIN, SPECIFY
- BLUE: ABILITY TO DO SOMETHING GOOD FACILITY, FLAIR, GIFT, KNACK
- PURPLE: GROUP OF BUILDINGS BLOCK, COMPLEX, COMPOSITION, DEVELOPMENT
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.
