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…
EGADSSCRAMBLEARTISTNAMESALADYEARYOGACHARACTERMEDIUMDIALIMAGESTEWMONTEREPUTATIONHASHTITLE
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
Yellow: Mix it up!Green: You don’t want this to be destroyedBlue: Read it and learnPurple: IRONER could be another
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: FOOD-RELATED JUMBLESGREEN: PUBLIC STANDINGBLUE: INFO ON A MUSEUM PLACARDPURPLE: ANAGRAMS OF FAMOUS PAINTERS
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 #515, are…
YELLOW: FOOD-RELATED JUMBLES HASH, SALAD, SCRAMBLE, STEWGREEN: PUBLIC STANDING CHARACTER, IMAGE, NAME, REPUTATIONBLUE: INFO ON A MUSEUM PLACARD ARTIST, MEDIUM, TITLE, YEARPURPLE: ANAGRAMS OF FAMOUS PAINTERS DIAL, EGADS, MONTE, YOGA
My rating: ModerateMy score: Perfect
I’m feeling rather smug today, having solved what I consider to be one of the most difficult purple connections in weeks. Once again, the trick was in focusing on the words that appeared to have very little connection to anything – not just the other words here, but literally anything. Here, that was the words EGADS and MONTE, which are uncommon in their own right and which seemed to be properly isolated among the other 14 options. So I played around with the letters a little, and realized that EGADS was an anagram of DEGAS. That led to me YOGA (GOYA), MONTE (MONET) and DIAL (DALI) and I’d solved the hardest group here.
I’d already completed yellow before that – the very simple FOOD-RELATED JUMBLES, with HASH, SALAD, SCRAMBLE and STEW – which meant I needed only one more group. That ended up being PUBLIC STANDING (CHARACTER, IMAGE, NAME, REPUTATION), meaning I solved today’s game with no mistakes – unusually.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
YELLOW: DVR BUTTONS PAUSE, PLAY, RECORD, STOPGREEN: GROUNDBREAKING DIFFERENT, NEW, NOVEL, ORIGINALBLUE: COMMUNICATE THROUGH WRITING CORRESPOND, MESSAGE, TEXT, WRITEPURPLE: THINGS WITH FEET BIPED, FURNITURE, POEM, YARDSTICK
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.