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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 Thursday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New -Connections Tip and Response to Thursday 7 August (Games #788).
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 #789) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- DEGREE
- DRAW
- Pac-Man
- West
- PAINT
- PRESENT
- BIND
- Doodle
- Marvel
- SQUARE
- SPACE
- EVEN
- Doze
- GIVE
- Assigned
- PASS NOTES
New Connections Today (Game #789) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: Words describing a 1-1 Scoreline
- GREEN: To give
- BLUE: Running off
- Purple: Two consonants with more meanings
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 #789) – Tip No. 2 – Group Response
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- Yellow: Make straight, like a score
- Green: Assignment
- Blue: Things you might do during a boring class/ meeting
- Purple: Words after the letters “MS”
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #789) – The answers

The answers to today’s connections, game #789, are …
- Yellow: Make straight, like a score Sign, even, square, tie
- Green: Assignment Conference, grants, present, west
- Blue: Things you might do during a boring class/ meeting Doodle, doze, pass -notes, space
- Purple: Words after the letters “MS” Degree, wonder, pac-man, paint
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Fail
Today’s connections flew far above my head. I had already used two mistakes in the easiest group, so the odds were stacked against me.
And yes, I thought Draw, Paint and Doodle should be in a group together and in search of a last chosen gift for no logical reason at all – this was not my greatest day.
If you found this edition straight and the word space did not send you into a tail spin of confusion (it should certainly have said “space out”), then kudos.
Yesterday’s new -connections Reply (Thursday 7 August, Game #788)
- Yellow: Mus actions Click, pull, hover, roll
- Green: Perfor Bore, pierce, poke, punch
- Blue: Those with pointed ears Batman, Devil, Elf, Vulcan
- Purple: Wimbledon winners Borg, Graf, King, Sinner
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.



