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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle feels fun and summery to me, with a musical category and a dessert grouping, among others. 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: How do you see things?
Green group hint: Summertime treat.
Blue group hint: Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
Purple group hint: Not cold.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Perspective.
Green group: Seen at an ice cream shop.
Blue group: Hit songs of 1998.
Purple group: Hot ____.
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What are today’s Connections answers?
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is perspective. The four answers are angle, bent, lens and point of view.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is seen at an ice cream shop. The four answers are cone, cup, little spoon and scoop.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is hit songs of 1998. The four answers are Closing Time, Iris, One Week and Too Close.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is hot ____. The four answers are dog, potato, rod and water bottle.
Quick tips for Connections
#1: Say the clue words out loud, pausing before and after each. That helps you hear the words in the context of a phrase. The Connections editors love to group words together that are used in similar phrasing, like ____ Up.
#2: Don’t go for the obvious grouping. These editors are smart. Once, they offered SPONGE, BOB, SQUARE and PANTS in the same puzzle. None of those words were in the same category. If you like, hit the «shuffle» button to give yourself a different perspective on the words.
#3: Break down any compound words and look for similarities. «Rushmore» was once in a puzzle where the connection was that each word started with the name of a rock band.
