Subj : NYT Connections today hints and answers for Sunday, June 30 (gam To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Sun Jun 30 2024 00:15:05 NYT Connections today hints and answers for Sunday, June 30 (game #385) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:02:00 +0000 Description: Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. FULL STORY ====================================================================== And so the weekend comes to an end with a really difficult Connections puzzle. Or is it? Well, I certainly struggled, but maybe you won't. If you do, there are hints below. 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 #385) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) Today's NYT Connections words are ASH ELECTRIC SAW JET GAS CHESTNUT FILTER GUM EBONY MAXIM WOOD HEATER PUMP CHERRY CHARCOAL ADAGE NYT Connections today (game #385) - hint #1 - group hints What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: A saying from the past Green: Fire up the barbecue Blue: Woody types Purple: No bubbles without these 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 #385) - hint #2 - group answers What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: OLD SAYING GREEN: GRILL FUEL SOURCES BLUE: TREES PURPLE: HOT TUB COMPONENTS Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #385) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Connections, game #385, are YELLOW: OLD SAYING ADAGE, CHESTNUT, MAXIM, SAW GREEN: GRILL FUEL SOURCES CHARCOAL, ELECTRIC, GAS, WOOD BLUE: TREES ASH, CHERRY, EBONY, GUM PURPLE: HOT TUB COMPONENTS FILTER, HEATER, JET, PUMP My rating: Hard My score: 3 mistakes Woah! This was a tough one. A really tough one. I made three mistakes in solving it, and frankly it was a lot harder than the ones I failed last week. The problem here (for me at least) was that so many of the possible answers could have gone together. That's always (or often) a factor in Connections, of course, but today the problem was particularly pronounced. For instance, I guessed trees first, putting CHERRY, ASH, CHESTNUT and GUM together. No dice. So I tried heat sources, with WOOD, ELECTRIC, GAS and HEATER. But wrong again. And then I thought maybe there was something about hair color: CHESTNUT, EBONY, ASH, CHERRY. But that was incorrect too. After many minutes of deliberation, I put the 'Hot tub components' group together and solved what was supposedly the most difficult of the four. Then revisited the fuel-related answers and worked out that charcoal finished that group. Next, I focused on ADAGE and MAXIM, which I could see must go together and which didn't fit elsewhere so easily. I thought maybe SAW might be connected, then realized that 'old chestnut' also fit, and solved the yellow group. And that left the blue trees group for me to solve by default; my missing answer earlier had been EBONY, which I knew was a type of wood so I don't know why I didn't think of it at the time. How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 29 June, game #384) BLUE: PLACED DOWN LAID, PLACED, PUT, SAT GREEN: CONNECT COUPLE, TIE, UNITE, WED YELLOW: HOMOPHONES TO, TOO, TUE, TWO PURPLE: ___FLOWER MAY, SUN, WALL, WILD 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. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-30-june-2 024 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .