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Forbes
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Saturday, July 5: Answers And Clues For Today's Game
Connections hints and answers are here. Looking for Friday's NYT Connections hints, clues and answers instead? You can find them here: It's the day after the Fourth of July, so perhaps you're still stuffed full of hot dogs, but you need to wake up and refresh your brain after a potentially long night with some Connections. How to Play Connections Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here. The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there. There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can't just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together. You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you're close, it will tell you that you're one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles. So, onto the hints and answers: What Are Today's Connections Hints? These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers. The hints for the Connections groups today are: What Are Today's Connections Groups? Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today: What Are Today's Connections Answers? The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are: Yellow Group here used a word I thought might be a tennis clue, RACKET, as I thought maybe you could combine that with BUCKET for balls you were hitting. This one was tough because I don't associate a STING with being a con, though I suppose that is technically sort of a police-based con. Sort of an odd classifcaiton though. Green Group beings the trickery that we thought there was going to be LAUNDRY series of clues, as you can both BEAT and FOLD for different stages of the cleaning process. FOLD is probably the hardest word on that list, but I keep thinking of the episode of Schitt's Creek where they talk about 'folding in the cheese.' I thought Blue Group might be the hardest today. These are sort of all love-based, minus ITCH, as I mean, does anyone ever say I 'ITCH' for you? I don't think so. BURN and PINE could have been forrest fire related, but I see how they pair together here now. That was tough. Purple Group is of course also pretty difficult. I think TO-DO was a big clue in terms of getting to the list characterization, but once again, LAUNDRY was there trying to trip us up with other words. BUCKET list and SHORT list make a lot of sense, obviously, so those weren't as difficult to place here. How did you do today? Harder or easier this time? Connections Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
CNET
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers for June 29, #749
Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. There's a very 1980s phrase in it and I had no idea where to put it. Even now, I'm going to have to Google it within its category to find out what it means. (It's this.) Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak. Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time Hints for today's Connections groups Here are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: I scream, you scream... Green group hint: Aaugh! Blue group hint: Boogie down. Purple group hint: I can see clearly now. Answers for today's Connections groups Yellow group: Ice cream treats. Green group: Flinch. Blue group: Dance moves. Purple group: Seen in the aftermath of a rainstorm. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words What are today's Connections answers? The completed NYT Connections puzzle for June 29, 2025, #749. NYT/Screenshot by CNET The yellow words in today's Connections The theme is ice cream treats. The four answers are float, shake, split and sundae. The green words in today's Connections The theme is flinch. The four answers are bolt, jerk, jump and startle. The blue words in today's Connections The theme is dance moves. The four answers are cabbage patch, floss, moonwalk and robot. The purple words in today's Connections The theme is seen in the aftermath of a rainstorm. The four answers are earthworm, mud, mushroom and puddle.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Today's Quordle Hints (and Answer) for Sunday, June 22, 2025
If you're looking for the Quordle answer for Sunday, June 22, 2025, read on—I'll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. Beware, there are spoilers below for June 22, Quordle #1245! Keep scrolling if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today's Quordle game. (If you play Wordle, Connections, and Strands, check out our hints for those games, too.) How to play Quordle Quordle lives on the Merriam-Webster website. A new puzzle goes live every day. If you've never played, it's a twist on The New York Times' daily Wordle game, in which you have a limited number of attempts to guess a five-letter mystery word. In Quordle, though, you're simultaneously solving four Wordle-style puzzles, and each of your guesses gets applied to the four puzzles simultaneously. Due to the increased difficulty, Quordle grants you nine guesses (12 if you play on 'Chill' mode, or eight if you play on 'Extreme'), rather than Wordle's six. To start, guess a five-letter word. The letters of the word in each of the four quadrants will turn green if they're correct, yellow if you have the right letter in the wrong place, or gray if the letter isn't in that secret word at all. Ready for the hints? Let's go! Can you give me a hint for today's Quordle? Upper left: To take (control) Upper right: A sensation taking over the nation! Lower left: Relating to Vatican City Lower right: A former brand of Toyota Does today's Quordle have any double or repeated letters? Upper left: No. Upper right: No. Lower left: Yes, one repeated vowel. Lower right: No. What letters do today's Quordle words start with? Upper left: W Upper right: C Lower left: P Lower right: S What letters do today's Quordle words end with? Upper left: T Upper right: E Lower left: L Lower right: N What is the solution to today's Quordle? Upper left: WREST Upper right: CRAZE Lower left: PAPAL Lower right: SCION How I solved today's Quordle I start with SLATE and MOUND, then turn my attention to the upper right. I'll try GRAPE. Close. It could be CRAZE. Yep. The upper left might be TREES. Not quite. I think it has to be WREST. Yes. I think the bottom right might be SONIC. Nope! The O can't be in second position; that was silly. SCION's the only option. One guess left. I'll try APPLY. Dang, it was PAPAL. Oh well. The best starter words for Quordle What should you play for that first guess? We can look to Wordle for some general guidelines. The best starters tend to contain common letters, to increase the chances of getting yellow and green squares to guide your guessing. (And if you get all grays when guessing common letters, that's still excellent information to help you rule out possibilities.) There isn't a single 'best' starting word, but The New York Times's Wordle analysis bot has suggested starting with one of these: CRANE TRACE SLANT CRATE CARTE Meanwhile, an MIT analysis found that you'll eliminate the most possibilities in the first round by starting with one of these: SALET REAST TRACE CRATE SLATE Other good picks might be ARISE or ROUND. Words like ADIEU and AUDIO get more vowels in play, but you could argue that it's better to start with an emphasis on consonants, using a starter like RENTS or CLAMP. Choose your strategy, and see how it plays out.
The Guardian
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Can you solve it? The most Guardian puzzle ever
Numbers can be odd, even, prime, square, natural, perfect, complex, rational…and as from today they can also be guardians. Let the numbers be 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on. The guardian of x is the next number that shares at least one digit of x. For example: the guardian of 4 is 14, and the guardian of 59 is 65. Guardian figures a) Find the guardian of 17, the guardian of 79, and the guardian of 179. b) Find two consecutive numbers with the same guardian. c) How many numbers are exactly 9 less than their guardian? A number's grandguardian is their guardian's guardian. d) Who is the grandguardian of 499? e) Whose grandguardian is 900? Two numbers are cousins if they have the same grandguardian but different guardians. f) What is the smallest pair of cousins? I'll be back with the solutions at 5pm. Please NO SPOILERS. Instead please share your favourite type of number or invent your own. The idea of guardian numbers is due to the brilliant puzzle setter Daniel Griller. His most recent book is A Ring of Cats and Dogs. I've been setting a puzzle here on alternate Mondays since 2015. I'm always on the look-out for great puzzles. If you would like to suggest one, email me.
