Looking for help in solving today's New York Times Connections puzzle? You're in luck because I've got hints (and spoilers if you want them) to help you get through Friday's puzzle: #796. Don't feel bad for taking a peek — these puzzles are pretty tricky.
Since we're in this together, I'll share how I did each day. Aside from yellow and green, these groups were nothing like I thought they'd be. I was down to one mistake left before I finally figured out what blue was, saving purple for last.
If you're new to NYT Connections, we've got some tips to help you along the way. Also, check out today's Wordle hints and answer.
How to play NYT Connections
NYT Connections is a surprisingly difficult word game and if you play, you're now considered a "connector." There are 16 words presented in a four-by-four grid and your goal is to match four words into their respective color-coded groups (yellow, green, blue, purple). Yellow is the easiest to guess while purple is the hardest.
Your job is to find out how the four words are connected to a specific group. For instance, in one recent puzzle, the blue group hint was "related to buying a home" and the words were appraisal, escrow, insurance and mortgage.
If you make a mistake when you submit, that's okay. You get four guesses before the game is over and the answers are revealed. You can also click on the lightbulb icon in the game to get some hints, but we'll also provide those here.
If you find yourself obsessed with this game after completing just one puzzle, I've got bad news for you. You can only play once a day. The timer resets each night at midnight.
Tips for playing NYT Connections
I only recently started playing Connections, but here are some tips I've found useful along the way.
1. When you get an answer wrong, pay attention to the text that appears at the top of the puzzle. "One away" means you only got one word wrong. Analyze each word to find one that might fit better in another group and try a new word.
2. If you're stuck, shuffle the board. You can shuffle as many times as you'd like to help you see some different word combinations.
3. Try to find the easy yellow group words first. Those words usually stick out because they have so much in common — they're often synonyms of one another. But be wary of the trick words that could fit into multiple categories.
4. Stumped? Come back to the puzzle later with a fresher mind. Trying to solve a difficult puzzle without "sleeping" on it might result in too many mistakes.
Today's NYT Connections hints
Check out these hints if you're having a hard time grouping them together.
I'll give you my own hints:
Yellow group: Parts of a chicken
Green group: What you might do at the end of dining out
Blue group: Wonderful
Purple group: Crunchy, earthy things you eat, like almonds
Here's one word from each group:
Yellow group hint word: Thigh
Green group hint word: Pay
Blue group hint word: Grand
Purple group hint word: Haze
Okay, on to the official group names for a bigger hint. If you don't want to know what those are, then stop scrolling.
NYT Connections group names
Here are the group names for today's puzzle.
Yellow group: Poultry cuts
Green group: Handle, as a bill
Blue group: Splendid
Purple group: Starts of culinary nuts
Warning, spoilers ahead! If you scroll past this, the answers are right below.
Final warning! Last chance to go back and finish the game.
Today's NYT Connections answers (spoilers)
Here are the Connections groups and the words that go with them.
Yellow group: Poultry cuts (breast, tender, thigh, wing)
Green group: Handle, as a bill (foot, pay, settle, take care of)
Blue group: Splendid (brilliant, capital, fine, grand)
Purple group: Starts of culinary nuts (cash, haze, mac, pec)
My results today
What started out as an easy puzzle had me sweating with one guess left at the end. Yellow and green were easy enough but I could not figure out that final blue word. I first thought it was types of punishment (capital, haze, grand, fine); so close, yet so far. Then I thought it was somehow related to money. Also wrong. At least I didn't lose!
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Thanks for reading! Share how you did today in the comments.
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