Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for July 27, #412

Need the answers for the New York Times Connections Puzzle? To me, Wordle is more of a vocabulary test, but Connections is more of a brain teaser. You’re given 16 words and have to sort them into four groups that are connected in some way. Sometimes they’re obvious, but game editor Wyna Liu manages to trick you by using words that fit into more than one group. Read on for today’s Connections hints and answers.

Want more answers to the game? Here’s today’s Wordle answer, and here’s the answer for Strands. And will you solve the NYT Mini Crossword? Here’s today’s answer for that.

Read more: NYT Connections could be the new Wordle: our hints and tips

Tips for Today’s Connections Groups

Below are four clues for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, arranged from the easiest yellow group to the trickiest (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: To get off the path.

Green group hint: Make something.

Blue group hint: A handsome person.

Purple group hint: 18th letter of the alphabet.

Answers for Today’s Connections Groups

Yellow group: Comments that have nothing to do with the topic.

Green group: Create as results.

Blue group: Nice one.

Purple group: Words represented by the letter “R.”

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: These Are The Most Popular Letters Used In English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is off-topic comments. The four answers are aside, detour, digression, and tangent.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is creating as a result. The four answers are carrying, generating, producing and delivering.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is hottie. The four answers are babe, fox, snack and ten.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is words represented by the letter “R”. The four answers are: are, radius, reverse and right.

How to play Connections

Playing is easy. Winning is hard. Look at the 16 words and mentally assign them to related groups of four. Click on the four words that you think belong together. The groups are color-coded, but you won’t know what goes where until you see the answers. The yellow group is easiest, then green, then blue, and purple is hardest. Look closely at the words and think of related terms. Sometimes the connection is just part of the word. Once, four words were grouped together because they all started with the name of a rock band, including “Rushmore” and “Journeyman.”