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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 Saturday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New -Connections Tip and Reply to Saturday April 26 (Game #685).
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 #686) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- MASSAGE
- Times
- Ruffle
- FISH
- Percentage
- SHOCK
- Meatball
- GOLDFISH
- Combo
- LOCK
- Is equal to
- Stretch
- CHEF
- MINUS
- Tuft
- Taki
New -Connections Today (Games #686) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: Summer
- GREEN: Different amounts of something you get cut
- BLUE: Tasty Bites
- Purple: From a cold European country
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 #686) – Tip No. 2 – Group Response
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- Yellow: Calculator
- Green: Quantities of Hair
- Blue: Salt Snack Unit
- Purple: Swedish ____
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #686) – The answers
The answers to today’s connections, game #686, are …
- Yellow: Calculator Is equal to minus, percent, times
- Green: Quantities of Hair Lock, shock, thatched roof, tuft
- Blue: Salt Snack Unit Combo, Goldfish, Ruffle, Taki
- Purple: Swedish ____ Chef, fish, massage, meatball
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Fail
I regularly use a calculator, have abundant amounts of hair on my head, love a salty snack and shop regularly on IKEA, but still I found today’s puzzle completely confusing.
Calculator buttons I came right away, but then came the collapse. At first I thought there was a group of Victorian writers whom I knew nothing about – so I linked Lock, Thatch, Taki and Tuft.
I got “One Away!” Alert, but still did not think of hair and instead continued with my literature hank and swapped thatched tires for fleets.
After I finally got amounts of hair, I still wandered with only two groups to get – first thought there was something about bowls. To my defense, cultural difference averted me, as most of the products referred to as a salty snack unit, as well as Swedish fish, are rare delicacies in the UK.
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s New -Connections Reply (Saturday April 26, Game #685)
- Yellow: tint Color, tint, shade, tone
- Green: Valley Dale, Dell, Glen, Hollow
- Blue: Bobs Dole, Hope, Marley, Ross
- Purple: Color Anagrams Dre, Gary, genre, lubricant
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.
