Looking for another day?
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 Friday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New -Connections Tip and Response to Friday 18th July (Game #768).
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 #769) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- Tack
- Press
- Rap
- Snap
- Leo
- Brad
- Spike
- Don
- SEAM
- WELL
- Microphone
- PASS
- SPRING
- RAIN
- Punt
- PIN
New Connections Today (Game #769) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: Where the things of life come from
- GREEN: Pigskin options
- BLUE: Keep things together
- Purple: How an animated animal collective begins
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 #769) – Tip No. 2 – Group Response
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: Sources of drinking water
- GREEN: Things you can do with a football
- BLUE: Sharp fasteners
- Purple: Start of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #769) – The answers
The answers to today’s connections, game #769, is …
- Yellow: Sources of drinking water Rain, spring, tap, well
- Green: Things you can do with a football Passport, Punt, Snap, Spike
- Blue: Sharp fasteners Brad, nail, pin, tack
- Purple: Start of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Don, Leo, Mic, Rap
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Fail
I was in a clear disadvantage today, knowing nothing about football (of the American species) or mutant ninja turtles, but that wasn’t the reason I crashed.
Like many, I’m sure watching Brad and Leo next to each other on the board immediately made me think of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, so I spent ages finding a group that was something to do with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood – Wasting a mistake on a wild guess.
My next three mistakes came before I even got a single group correctly. When I thought I was looking for a group of things you could hammer, I chose nails, pin, tack and spike.
After getting one away, I tried snap instead of spike and then, possessed by another ‘one away’, spring. Ah well, you can’t win them all. Or hammering them all.
Yesterday’s new -connections answer (Friday, July 18th Game #768)
- Yellow: Sequence Run, series, strip, string
- Green: pick up on Catch, note, look, spot
- Blue: Yoga -Backbends Bro, cobra, cow, wheels
- Purple: Electric -___ Blanket, eel, guitar, slide
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.
