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A new new Connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone – which means some people always play ‘Today’s Games’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you are looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New -Connections Tip and Reply to Sunday April 20 (Games #677).
Good morning! Let’s play connections, News Smart Wordpan that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need connections tips.
What are you going to do when you are done? Why, play some more word games of course. I also got daily strict tips and answers and quordle tips and answer articles if you also need help with them, while Marc’s Wordle Today page covers the original viral Word game.
Spoiler Warning: Information on new connections Today is below, so do not read on if you do not want to know the answers.
New -Connections Today (Play #680) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- CELL
- IRON
- TWIST
- SHEET
- SPRING
- Wrench
- Protein
- Plugs
- DNA
- Curveball
- COLUMN
- Sodium
- Bombshell
- Row
- FAT
- Fusilli
New Connections Today (Game #680) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: Food information
- GREEN: Surprise element
- BLUE: Excel or Google
- Purple: Spirals
Need more clues?
We are fixed on spoiler territory now, but read on whether you want to know what the four theme answers are to today’s new connections puzzle …
New Connections Today (Game #680) – Tip No. 2 – Group Response
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- Yellow: Info on a Nutrition Label
- Green: Metaphor for something unexpected
- Blue: Things you can insert in a spreadsheet
- Purple: Helical Things
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #680) – The answers
The answers to today’s connections, game #680, is …
- Yellow: Info on a Nutrition Label Fat, iron, protein, sodium
- Green: Metaphor for something unexpected Bombshell, Curveball, Twist, wrench
- Blue: Things you can insert in a spreadsheet Cell, Pillar, Row, Sheet
- Purple: Helical Things Corkscrew, DNA, Fusilli, Spring
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 Error
My mistake today came with what would be spiral -shaped things.
From Fusilli, I immediately knew we were looking for spiral forms, but I ignored spring as an object and picked curve ball instead and thought of spin of a ball thrown by a baseball pitcher spun in a spiral. I gave up this group as the rest seemed more concrete.
I use Google Sheets almost every day for some reason, so things you can insert into a spreadsheet were an easy solution. And even though info on a nutritional label wasn’t what I thought seemed fat, iron, protein and sodium to belong together.
Incidentally, back to Fusilli, it is a brilliant pasta form that is often a victim of incorrect identification.
For years, I thought I was eating Fusilli, which is a hollow spiral spring form, but I actually ate Rotini, which is cork screw -shaped pasta. It’s not my fault that Rotini is often sold as a fusilli. It’s like John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in Face/off – They have changed identities and everyone’s insecure, who is who. Fortunately, they both have excellent sauce-attracting grooves (the pasta, not John Travolta and Nicolas Cage’s faces).
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s new -connections answer (Sunday April 20, Game #679)
- Yellow: Glimpse Gander, glance, see, look
- Green: Need to tie dyeing a shirt Basin, dye, rubber band, shirt
- Blue: Things you can crack Code, eggs, joke, whip
- Purple: Words Before “Hop” Bar, bunny, hip, sock
What are new connections?
New Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four objects that share something in common, and each group has another level of difficulty: green is light, yellow a little harder, blue often quite hard and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you do not have to technically solve the last one, as you can answer one by an elimination process. In addition, you can make up to four errors, giving you a little bit of breathing room.
However, it is a little more involved than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to get up with tricks. For example, be careful on gay and other word games that can hide the answers.
It can be played free of charge via the new Games website on desktop or mobile.
