Today serves up another moderately tough Connections puzzle; not impossibly difficult, but hardly easy either. I've compiled some hints below if you need them.
What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #388) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- BIRTHDAY
- MARBLE
- WRENCH
- CONCRETE
- CURVEBALL
- WORKSHOP
- PARTY
- POUND
- SPITBALL
- MATERIAL
- REAL
- TANTRUM
- SOLID
- BRAINSTORM
- CRUMB
- IDEATE
NYT Connections today (game #388) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Creative thinking
- Green: It exists
- Blue: Let them eat it
- Purple: You can throw them into a sentence
Need more clues?
We're firmly in 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 today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DEVELOP, AS IDEAS
- GREEN: TANGIBLE
- BLUE: KINDS OF CAKE
- PURPLE: THINGS YOU CAN THROW, IN METAPHORS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #388) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #388, are…
- YELLOW: DEVELOP, AS IDEAS BRAINSTORM, IDEATE, SPITBALL, WORKSHOP
- GREEN: TANGIBLE CONCRETE, MATERIAL, REAL, SOLID
- BLUE: KINDS OF CAKE BIRTHDAY, CRUMB, MARBLE, POUND
- PURPLE: THINGS YOU CAN THROW, IN METAPHORS CURVEBALL, PARTY, TANTRUM, WRENCH
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
A moderate Connections puzzle consisting of a couple of groups of synonyms, one group of types of cake and one, the more difficult purple, of metaphors. I don't know if I would have got that final one, to be honest, but fortunately I didn't need to, given that I'd solved the other three.
Not that any of them were easy as such. Cake should have been – I love cake and have eaten plenty of it in my time – but I've never heard of a CRUMB cake and didn't make the connection between MARBLE and POUND until late on. Now that I do know what crumb cake is, though, I think I'm going to find some and eat it – because it looks lovely.
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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 2 July, game #387)
- YELLOW: PACK (AWAY) FOR FUTURE USE SQUIRREL, STASH, STORE, STOW
- GREEN: ADJECTIVES FOR ASSETS FIXED, FROZEN, LIQUID, TOXIC
- BLUE: LATIN WORDS CAVEAT, ERGO, QUID, VOX
- PURPLE: ___ GAME ARCADE, BLAME, NUMBERS, SQUID
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
