NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 4 (game #724)
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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 Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, June 3 (game #723).
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 #724) - today's words
(Image credit: New York Times)
Today's NYT Connections words are…
PIPE
HOOK
ROOT
APPLE
CHEER
CONSOLE
CLOUD
BRIDGE
RUNNER
BOWLER
REFRAIN
WHISTLE
BENCH
CHORUS
CLAP
COAT RACK
NYT Connections today (game #724) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: Elements of a hit
GREEN: Fan worship
BLUE: Hallway stuff
PURPLE: A surrealist classic
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…
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NYT Connections today (game #724) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: PARTS OF A SONG
GREEN: SUPPORT AUDIBLY
BLUE: THINGS IN AN ENTRYWAY
PURPLE: IMAGERY IN MAGRITTE PAINTINGS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #724) - the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today's Connections, game #724, are…
YELLOW: PARTS OF A SONG BRIDGE, CHORUS, HOOK, REFRAIN
GREEN: SUPPORT AUDIBLY CHEER, CLAP, ROOT, WHISTLE
BLUE: THINGS IN AN ENTRYWAY BENCH, COAT RACK, CONSOLE, RUNNER
PURPLE: IMAGERY IN MAGRITTE PAINTINGS APPLE, BOWLER, CLOUD, PIPE
My rating: Hard
My score: 2 mistakes
A game of two halves today. After I got the first two groups fairly quickly I hit a roadblock and saw no connection between the eight remaining words (I’ll count COAT RACK as one word).
Completely stuck, I pressed shuffle to see if it would give me any clues and selected a few random groups of four.
It was thinking visually that changed things, as I imagined each item. I would not have been able to tell you the name of the artist – but APPLE, BOWLER, CLOUD and PIPE were all things I imagined in a painted form, and indeed there are all items that reoccur in Magritte’s surrealist paintings along with umbrellas, candles and doves.
His most famous piece is The Treachery of Images, better known for the phrase beneath a painting of a pipe which reads Ceci n'est pas une pipe (this is not a pipe). For a moment I felt quite clever, before admitting to myself that it was just a wild guess.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, June 3, game #723)
YELLOW: BE OSTENTATIOUS GRANDSTAND, POSTURE, SHOWBOAT, SWAGGER
GREEN: COPACETIC FINE, HUNKY-DORY, OK, SWELL
BLUE: KINDS OF BRACELETS CHARM, FRIENDSHIP, ID, TENNIS
PURPLE: THINGS YOU CAN PRACTICE LAW, MEDICINE, SELF-CARE, WITCHCRAFT
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.