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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 Wednesday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New -Connections Tip and Response to Wednesday April 30 (Games #689).
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 #690) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- SHAKE
- PURSE
- FOREHEAD
- POT
- Dolly
- FUN
- PREMIUM
- TRAVEL
- PAUSE
- BITE
- KICK
- Zoom
- DROP
- REWARD
- Slope
New Connections Today (Game #690) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: What you get to be a master
- GREEN: Cut it out
- BLUE: Film making
- Purple: Miniature versions
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 #690) – Tip No. 2 – Group Response
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- Yellow: Winners
- Green: Stop, like a habit
- Blue: movie camera verbs
- Purple: Words that precede “-size” to mean small
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #690) – The answers
The answers to today’s connections, game #690, are …
- Yellow: Winners Pot, prize, purse, reward
- Green: Stop, like a habit Break, drop, kick, shake
- Blue: movie camera verbs Dolly, pan, slope, zoom
- Purple: Words that precede “-size” to mean small Bite, fun, pocket, travel
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 Errors
All three of my mistakes came in the same group: movie camera -verb.
My first lunch, when I saw the grid in 16 words, was that there was a group about photography, but I kept getting it wrong – first thought it was Photoshop tools, so something to do with special effects.
It was only before I had trimmed my possibilities down to eight words that I realized that Dolly was a filming word, even though I didn’t realize it was a type of shot; I thought the equipment was a dolly.
A frustrating round, even more when I missed a purple group that I really should have had. Scroll on tomorrow.
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s new -connections Reply (Wednesday 30 April, Game #689)
- Yellow: Parts of a shoe Heel, sole, tongue, upper
- Green: Accommodation Capacity, chairs, room, seating
- Blue: reputation Face, picture, recital, standing
- Purple: Ends with Synonyms to “Yuck“Dynasty, Engross, Gimmick, Mildew
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.
