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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 Response to Sunday May 18 (Game #707).
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 #708) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- MELON
- BALL
- CHANCE
- Bawl
- SOUL
- Lard
- FUNCTION
- Fluke
- Tool
- TOW
- Avenue
- ADVANTAGE
- Flipper
- Railway
- Gala
- Whole
New Connections Today (Game #708) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: Big Bash
- GREEN: Don’t go by
- BLUE: Parts of a marine mammal
- Purple: Sounds like body parts
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 #708) – Tip No. 2 – Group Product
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- Yellow: Fundraising -Event
- Green: Space on a monopoly board
- Blue: Features in a toothed whale
- Purple: gay of parts of the foot
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #708) – The answers
The answers to today’s connections, game #708, are …
- Yellow: Fundraising -Event Ball, benefit, function, gala
- Green: Space on a monopoly board Avenue, Chance, Railway, Tool
- Blue: Features in a toothed whale Lard, flipper, fluke, melon
- Purple: gay of parts of the foot Bawl, health, soul, tow
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 Error
After getting a fundraising event quite quickly, I struggled to move on and started mixing the 12 remaining words. At first, I thought there was a group where luck was the connection – but I couldn’t get beyond fluke and coincidence.
Then I guess the blubber and flipper should be part of a group to do with marine biology. Out of pure luck, I added fluke and bawl and got “one away”, then the latter swapped to melon – which I now know is the name given to the tissue found in the forehead of tooth whales. Every day is a school day.
Of course, I kick myself with my heel, sole and toes that I didn’t get the relatively straightforward gays of parts of the foot.
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s new -connections answer (Sunday 18 May, Game #707)
- Yellow: Tasks for a student Task, live, exercise, lesson
- Green: Encouraging Answer in a Guess Game Almost, close, not quite, warm
- Blue: up to something Light, flexible, games, open
- Purple: What “A” can mean Area, athletic, excellent, one
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.
