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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, April 27 (game #686).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
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 #687) – today’s words
(Image credit: New York Times)Today’s NYT Connections words are…
MOUSSEDRAINBARETIREHAIRBORETIRE MARKEXHAUSTPLAINSPRAYSPAREFIBERWAXSIMPLEFINGERPRINTGELNYT Connections today (game #687) – hint #1 – group hintsWhat are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: For stylingGREEN: Pared back BLUE: Vital evidencePURPLE: PoopedNeed 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…
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NYT Connections today (game #687) – hint #2 – group answersWhat are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: HAIR PRODUCTS GREEN: AUSTERE BLUE: CLUES AT A CRIME SCENE PURPLE: WEARY Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #687) – the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)The answers to today’s Connections, game #687, are…
YELLOW: HAIR PRODUCTS GEL, MOUSSE, SPRAY, WAXGREEN: AUSTERE BARE, PLAIN, SIMPLE, SPAREBLUE: CLUES AT A CRIME SCENE FIBER, FINGERPRINT, HAIR, TIRE MARKPURPLE: WEARY BORE, DRAIN, EXHAUST, TIREMy rating: EasyMy score: PerfectI’m sure I wasn’t alone in thinking car parts could be a common thread today, with EXHAUST and TIRE leading my thinking. Instead, it was the other meaning of both those words that made up a group.
I’m staggered that I got a purple group so early in the game. Usually it’s the quartet that baffles me and that I solve last when there are no other alternatives, but today it seemed rather obvious.
CLUES AT A CRIME SCENE was trickier, but thoughts that they were all things that could identify us led me to connect this group.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, April 27, game #686)YELLOW: CALCULATOR BUTTONS EQUALS, MINUS, PERCENT, TIMESGREEN: AMOUNTS OF HAIR LOCK, SHOCK, THATCH, TUFTBLUE: SALTY SNACK UNIT COMBO, GOLDFISH, RUFFLE, TAKIPURPLE: SWEDISH ____ CHEF, FISH, MASSAGE, MEATBALLWhat 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.
Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the iPhone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna’s addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.
