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 clues.
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.
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- CRUNCH
- SUBSTANCE
- DEMI
- BIG
- THRUST
- SPORTS
- MARS
- MEAT
- EARLY
- CORE
- DOVE
- LADY
- SUE
- PUSH-UP
- PAYDAY
- WIRELESS
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Candy favorites
- Green: Central point
- Blue: Gives you support (possibly!)
- Purple: Blank [avian]
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…
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CHOCOLATE BARS
- GREEN: GIST
- BLUE: KINDS OF BRAS
- PURPLE: ___ BIRD
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
The answers to today’s Connections, game #519, are…
- YELLOW: CHOCOLATE BARS CRUNCH, DOVE, MARS, PAYDAY
- GREEN: GIST CORE, MEAT, SUBSTANCE, THRUST
- BLUE: KINDS OF BRAS DEMI, PUSH-UP, SPORTS, WIRELESS
- PURPLE: ___ BIRD BIG, EARLY, LADY, SUE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
Phew, this was a tough one! I needed all three extra guesses to solve it, and there was a large amount of guesswork involved in my answers too. I could easily have lost my streak here.
The problem was that all four groups were really tough; there appears to be no difficulty curve to it at all. Maybe yellow, supposedly the easiest of the four, is simple for some people – but not for me. I’m based in the UK, where PAYDAY, CRUNCH and DOVE are not famous CHOCOLATE BARS. Fortunately, I knew that PAYDAY and DOVE were US brands, and CRUNCH was an obvious one to go along with those two and MARS.
I also solved blue, KINDS OF BRAS, thanks to a shot-in-the-dark guess; I’m no expert (obviously), but had heard of PUSH-UP, WIRELESS and SPORTS – but not DEMI. But the latter sounded like it might fit, so in the absence of other ideas I went with it and got it right.
Purple was a monster. Eventually, I realized that LADY and BIG could both preceed BIRD, then spotted EARLY too. But I didn’t have a fourth. Eventually, I guessed SUE simply because it seemed more likely than the other words I had left, MEAT, THRUST, CORE and SUBSTANCE. Apparently SUE BIRD is/was a US basketball player…
So, a very US-focused game today, and not particularly satisfying for me. But I got there in the end thanks to a lot of luck.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
- YELLOW: BARREL-SHAPED CONTAINER CASK, CYLINDER, DRUM, TANK
- GREEN: GUIDE PILOT, SHEPHERD, STEER, USHER
- BLUE: N.F.L. TEAM MEMBER COWBOY, JET, RAM, RAVEN
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT SWING GOLFER, PENDULUM, SALOON DOORS, SWING