NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 11 (game #731)
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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 10 (game #730).
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 #731) - today's words
(Image credit: New York Times)
Today's NYT Connections words are…
EYEBROW
NUMBER
RAINBOW
ROOSTER
LEPRECHAUN
DAGGER
COUNT
CROW
ASTERISK
FLIGHT PATH
STRUT
BANANA
SHOW OFF
PARENS
ELVES
BLUSTER
NYT Connections today (game #731) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: Display of arrogance
GREEN: In an arch
BLUE: Breakfast stars
PURPLE: Reference point
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 #731) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: BOAST
GREEN: ARC-SHAPED THINGS
BLUE: CEREAL MASCOTS
PURPLE: WAYS TO DENOTE A CITATION
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #731) - the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today's Connections, game #731, are…
YELLOW: BOAST BLUSTER, CROW, SHOW OFF, STRUT
GREEN: ARC-SHAPED THINGS BANANA, EYEBROW, FLIGHT PATH, RAINBOW
PURPLE: WAYS TO DENOTE A CITATION ASTERISK, DAGGER, NUMBER, PARENS
My rating: Hard
My score: Fail
They say a little bit of knowledge can go a long way, but in my case a little bit of semi-useful hunches got me absolutely nowhere as I crashed out after getting obsessed over two groupings.
First off, despite knowing nothing about American breakfast cereals I was convinced there was a group about Lucky Charms and the shapes of the cereal. So I thought RAINBOW, LEPRECHAUN, ASTERISK, BANANA. I appreciate now that just one of these is a Lucky Charms shape,
Then, after abandoning that, I thought we were looking for an emoticon of a face or something similar. An assumption based off the fact that I knew PARENS was a rounded bracket and most emoticons featured asterisks.
How wrong I was, but I should have known we were looking for a group from the exciting world of word processing (see WAYS TO DENOTE A CITATION), an area the crazy spreadsheet heads at Connections HQ are constantly returning to.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, June 10, game #730)
YELLOW: ARBITRATE CHAIR, JUDGE, MEDIATE, MODERATE
BLUE: '80S SLANG CHILL, PSYCH, RADICAL, WORD
GREEN: THINGS YOU CAN INSERT IN A DOCUMENT CHART, IMAGE, TABLE, TEXT BOX
PURPLE: __ DUTY CIVIC, CUSTOMS, HEAVY, JURY
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.