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NYT Connections today – my hints and answers for June 15 (#735)
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Looking for a different day?
A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, June 14 (game #734).
Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
Today's NYT Connections words are…
FATHER
LANGUAGE
SODA
BLAST
SMOKING
MUD
ACTION
BURST
CRUD
POPULAR
FUDGE
BREW
ROCKET FUEL
NUDITY
JAVA
CURSES
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: Cafe culture
GREEN: Low level anger
BLUE: PG rated
PURPLE: Different meanings for a word that rhymes with 'stop'
Need more clues?
We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: SLANG FOR COFFEE
GREEN: "AW, HECK!"
BLUE: CONSIDERATIONS FOR MOVIE RATINGS
PURPLE: WHAT "POP" MIGHT MEAN
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
The answers to today's Connections, game #735, are…
YELLOW: SLANG FOR COFFEE BREW, JAVA, MUD, ROCKET FUEL
GREEN: "AW, HECK!" BLAST, CRUD, CURSES, FUDGE
BLUE: CONSIDERATIONS FOR MOVIE RATINGS ACTION, LANGUAGE, NUDITY, SMOKING
PURPLE: WHAT "POP" MIGHT MEAN BURST, FATHER, POPULAR, SODA
My rating: Hard
My score: Fail
I used up three lives trying to pin down SLANG FOR COFFEE today. I knew that BREW, JAVA, and ROCKET FUEL had coffee in common, but had no clue on the fourth and had never heard of anyone calling it MUD.
I've since learned it's a very basic method of brewing coffee that means everything has to settle before you drink it. For a while I thought that MUD and FUDGE could form a group as they are both words that feature in famous deserts.
Four words eliminated, WHAT 'POP' MIGHT MEAN came together after a shuffle put FATHER, POPULAR and SODA beside each other and I guessed what we were looking for.
From here, though, my good fortune deserted me and I failed to collect 'AW, HECK!', thinking instead that we were looking for something to do with emojis.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
YELLOW: GODDESS DIVA, ICON, LEGEND, QUEEN
GREEN: ELEMENTS OF A CLASSIC "MOM" TATTOO ARROW, HEART, MOM, RIBBON
BLUE: DOGS OF THE SCREEN ASTRO, BLUE, HOOCH, TOTO
PURPLE: __ TERRIER BORDER, BOSTON, BULL, RAT
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
