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Time of India
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
NYT Connections Hints July 5: Clues, categories, and answers to decode puzzle #755
Enthusiasts of The New York Times daily brain teaser, Connections , were greeted with a fresh set of intellectual challenges this Saturday, July 5, 2025. Puzzle #755 offered a blend of thematic ingenuity and lexical trickery that had players across the globe pondering over word clusters with renewed determination. As always, participants had to identify four groups of four words that share a common link. With only four chances to make errors, the game requires not only vocabulary skills but also a refined sense of pattern recognition. If today's grid has left you perplexed, read on for carefully crafted Connections hints on July 5, category breakdowns, and the final answers. Also Read | Wordle Answer Today: Hints, tips, and meaning to solve July 5's easy puzzle #1477 How the NYT Connections Game Works Launched in June 2023, Connections has quickly gained a loyal following. The gameplay is straightforward yet mentally stimulating: sort 16 words into four distinct groups of four based on hidden thematic ties. The challenge intensifies as the associations are often nuanced, relying on double meanings, idioms, or cultural references. Live Events With only four chances before the puzzle locks players out, Connections rewards both linguistic logic and creative intuition. Hints to Crack the Puzzle – Connections Hints July 5 To assist solvers who want a nudge without directly spoiling the answer, here are subtle pointers for each category featured in today's Connections puzzle, as mentioned in a report by Today: Yellow Group Hint: Think Danny Ocean — the mastermind of the Ocean's Eleven heists. Green Group Hint: Channel your inner Christina Tosi — the famed pastry chef known for mixing ingredients to perfection. Blue Group Hint: Recall Lucentio in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew — driven by yearning and desire. Purple Group Hint: Consider what you jot down in Apple Notes — practical or aspirational lists. These clues serve to orient players without directly solving the grid, preserving the integrity and enjoyment of the challenge. A Word From Each Category To further orient solvers without delivering the full solution upfront, here's one word from each of today's categories: Yellow: Scheme Green: Fold Blue: Burn Purple: Laundry Each offers a pathway into its broader theme — whether tied to mischief, culinary action, longing, or organization. Connections Categories Today, July 5 Today's grid has been dissected into the following four thematic categories: Con Game – Words linked by their association with deceit or schemes. Combine, as Baking Ingredients – Common baking verbs that involve mixing. Yearn – Synonyms expressing deep desire or longing. Kinds of Lists – Everyday categories or types of lists people make. The challenge for many lay in distinguishing between lists and verbs , as some words were deceptively ambiguous. Full Answers for Puzzle #755 For those ready to reveal the entire solution set, here is the breakdown of each successful grouping, as per a report by Today: Con Game (Yellow Group): Hustle, Racket, Scheme, Sting These words evoke deceptive or fraudulent activity, often for personal or financial gain. Combine, as Baking Ingredients (Green Group): Beat, Blend, Fold, Stir Familiar actions in any kitchen, especially among bakers, where precision in combining is key. Yearn (Blue Group): Burn, Itch, Long, Pine All evoke intense desire or emotional longing — often unfulfilled and persistent. Kinds of Lists (Purple Group): Bucket, Laundry, Short, To-Do These are various types of lists — whether goal-oriented, chore-based, or organizational. Strategic Takeaways Saturday's puzzle offered a balanced test of logic and lateral thinking. The Con Game category proved tricky for some players, with words like Hustle and Scheme also resembling productivity terms. Similarly, Fold and Burn could have been misleading without a firm grasp on contextual clues. For solvers looking to refine their strategy, it's helpful to: Start with the most obvious groupings (like baking verbs or list types). Eliminate combinations that share only superficial similarities. Use logic trees to test multiple hypotheses before locking in answers. FAQs What is the NYT Connections game? NYT Connections is a daily word puzzle by The New York Times that challenges players to group 16 words into four sets of four, each sharing a common theme. You're allowed up to four mistakes before the game ends. Was this puzzle considered easy or difficult? The July 5 puzzle offered a balanced challenge. While some categories like "Baking Verbs" were relatively easy, others like "Con Game" or "Yearn" were trickier due to double meanings.
Time Out
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
This outrageously decadent stuffed croissant will be available in Chicago for a limited time only
Milk Bar is making a splash in Chicago. The iconic New York-based dessert shop helmed by Christina Tosi opened its first Chicago store in February on the first floor of The Hoxton hotel in the Fulton Market District. Now, Tosi is teaming up with Daisies pastry chef Leigh Omilinsky to create a limited-time croissant that will satisfy your sweet tooth. The Bake Sale Croissant will be available only at the Daisies café in Logan Square starting Thursday, May 1 at 7am all throughout the month. The croissants are first come, first serve, so you'll want to get in line early. Stuffed with chocolate chip cookies, funfetti sprinkle cookies and a chocolate fudge brownie, the collaboration is the stuff of culinary dreams: the treat is topped with malted vanilla mousse, mini cookies and a colorful dash of rainbow sprinkles. Can you think of anything more decadent? What's more, a portion of proceeds from the Bake Sale Croissant sales will benefit Cookies for Kids' Cancer, an organization that funds research for pediatric cancers. Who is counting calories when your purchase helps support kids? 'We're beyond excited to be teaming up with Christina Tosi and Milk Bar—who I've long admired—for our Daisies Croissant Collaboration series,' said Omilinsky in an official statement. 'This collaboration is all about flavor, creativity and indulgence, and we had so much fun dreaming up a croissant that brings that signature Milk Bar magic to life.' This isn't the first crave-worthy collab that involves Daisies. The team previously created the now famous Chicago-style hot dog croissant with the Wiener Circle a while back. Omilinsky and partner Joe Frillman are also responsible for the Dill-Co pickle croissant that made the waves on social media to celebrate Wilco's 30th band anniversary in 2024. And who can forget the chocolate puck croissant collaboration with the NHL and the Chicago Blackhawks?
Axios
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Chicago's new Milk Bar pays tribute to the classics
The popular New York bakery Milk Bar opens its first Chicago location Saturday in Fulton Market. Zoom in: Chef Christina Tosi has created two sweet takes (well, sweeter in one case) on some local favorites. The bite: Portillo's Chocolate Cake Cookie ($3.25) Warmed up, it's a gooey piece of chocolate cake in cookie form with a perfect ratio of chips to cookie base. It will fill the craving of Portillo's cake and is a little easier to eat on the go than a slice. The intrigue: No mayonnaise in this one, Tosi tells Axios. The bite: The Hot Dog Bomb ($6) Carrie's husband Matt is stepping in on this one because she's a vegetarian. What he's saying: "The relish, mustard and poppy seed bun give it a true Chicago dog taste. There's some kick in the mustard but not sure what it is." "I'd order a six-pack of those." If you go: Milk Bar is at 200 N. Green St. at The Hoxton Hotel.
