NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Wednesday, July 24 (game #409)
Our clues will help you solve the NYT’s Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going
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Is this an easier Connections puzzle? No chance! It’s another tough one from the NYT, so read on for my hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got dailyWordle hints and answers,Strands hints and answersandQuordle hints and answersarticles 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.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a dailytoday’s Wordle answercolumn and a detailedanalysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He’s alsoplayed every Wordle ever and only lost onceand yes, he takes it all too seriously.
NYT Connections today (game #409) - today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
NYT Connections today (game #409) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
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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…
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NYT Connections today (game #409) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
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NYT Connections today (game #409) - the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #409, are…
The NYT’s insistence on throwing misdirection into every Connections puzzle can grate a little. Today is a prime example, because I lost two guesses to what easily could or maybe should have been answers, but weren’t. And in one case, I think the non answer was a better one than the actual solution.
My problems began with the baby animals group, which ended up being the blue one. I played CUB, CALF, KID and FAWN – because obviously they are all baby animals – but that was wrong. So I looked elsewhere and realized that KID could also go with TEASE and RIB, oh and RAZZ kind of fit, so I tried that and solved the yellow ‘joke around with’ group. Then I took another look at the animals again, swapped in KIT, and solved that one. Fine.
But that left eight answers. I’d already looked at SHOULDER, WING, THIGH and BREAST and figured it must be cuts of chicken, but hadn’t yet guessed it because the presence of CALF, MUSCLE and RIB made me think there might have been a different meat or body-part related answer. But I tried it now, and – to my surprise – it was wrong. What gives? So I looked elsewhere and got the ‘push through a crowd’ group instead, adding SHOULDER to BARGE, JOSTLE and MUSCLE, which meant the last group was indeed ‘poultry cuts’ – but with TENDER in there instead. We don’t even call them tenders in the UK, and even in the US surely it should be TENDERLOIN? I’m no expert, but anyway this was slightly frustrating even if technically it may have been allowed.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 23 July, game #408)
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 theNYT Games siteon desktop or mobile.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the dailyWordle todaypage).
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