Are you looking for a different day?
A new NYT connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone – which means that some people still play “today’s game” while others play “from yesterday”. If you are looking for the Friday puzzle Then click here: Nyt indices and responses for Friday April 25 (match # 684).
Good morning! Let’s play the connections, the NYT intelligent word game that challenges you to bring together the answers in various categories. It can be difficult, so read the rest if you need connections.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Well, play on word games of course. I also have daily clues and answers and tips and responses of articles if you also need help for them, while the Marc Bordle TODAY page covers the original viral word game.
Spoiler warning: information on NYT connections today is below, so don’t read if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT TODAY connections (game # 685) – The words of today
Today’s NYT connections words are…
- Glen
- Gary
- Ross
- COLOR
- HOPE
- HOLLOW
- SHADOW
- Lubricant
- Apron
- ALMS
- GENDER
- TONE
- Tint
- Dre
- VALLEY
- Marley
NYT TODAY connections (game # 685) – TIP # 1 – Group advice
What are the clues for today’s NYT connections groups?
- YELLOW: Pigment
- GREEN: Landscape
- BLUE: Short version of Robert
- PURPLE: Mixed letters
Need more signs?
We are firmly in the territory of spoiler now, but read the rest if you want to know what the four theme answers are for the puzzles of NYT connections today …
NYT TODAY connections (game # 685) – TIP # 2 – Group responses
What are the answers for today’s NYT connections groups?
- Yellow: shade
- Green: valley
- Blue: Bobs
- Purple: Color Anagrams
Okay, the answers are below, so don’t scroll further if you don’t want to see them.
NYT TODAY Connections (Game # 685) – Answers
The answers to today’s connections, the game # 685, are…
- Yellow: shade Color, shade, shade, your
- Green: valley Dale, Dell, Glen, Hollow
- Blue: Bobs Dole, Hope, Marley, Ross
- Purple: Color Anagrams Dre, gary, genre, lubricant
- My note: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
I made no mistakes today, but I was fully confident in any of the groups.
For the shade, I felt that the color was too much on the nose and maybe one of the other words finished the quartet.
As for Valley, I thought I was just looking for geographic terms and that Ross, which is used to describe the rocky promontories, could have been included. And, even if I knew that I was looking for famous bobs, I wondered if the name of Dr. Dre was Bob and if he were to join Marley and Hope.
With hindsight, purple should have been the most getable group, but the anagrams did not come to mind at all.
By the way, pleasant to see a nod to the incredible film GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS Hidden in today’s puzzle.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Responses of yesterday’s NYT connections (Friday April 25, match # 684)
- Yellow: gum flavors Bubblegum, cinnamon, menthol, wintergreen
- Green: starting point Catalyst, Launchpad, Spark, Springboard
- Blue: Great American Songbook Songs Fall leaves, summer, unforgettable, witchcraft
- Purple: ___ Tube Fallow, interior, test, empty
What is NYT connections?
Nyt Connections is one of the many increasingly popular puns produced by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite hard and generally very difficult.
On the positive side, you do not technically need to resolve the last, because you can respond to it by an elimination process. In addition, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little breathing margin.
However, it is a little more involved than something like Wordle, and there are a lot of opportunities so that the game makes you trip with towers. For example, pay attention to homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It is playable for free via the NYT games site on the desktop or mobile.
