NYT Connections Today — Clues and Answers for Saturday, July 27 (Game #412)

The weekend starts with a Connections puzzle that is very difficult, in my experience. You may need some hints to solve it, although in my case, luck was enough…

What to do once you’re done? Of course, play other word games. I also have Wordle daily cheats and answers, Strands cheats and answers, and Quordle cheats and answers articles if you need help with those too.

SPOILER ALERT: Below is information about NYT Connections today, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

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Marc McLaren

NYT Connections Today (Game #412) – Words of the Day

NYT Connections' clues for the game 412 on a purple background

(Photo credit: New York Times)

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

BEAR
DETOUR
RAY
YIELD
FOX
TANGENT
REVERSE
SNACK
TEN
GENERATE
DIGRESSION
RIGHT
PRODUCE
NEXT TO
ARE
BABY

NYT Connections Today (Game #412) – Clue #1 – Group Clues

What are the clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: Conversational entertainment
Green: Do?
Blue: attractive person
Purple: Represented by a specific letter

Need more clues?

We’re now firmly in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know what the four thematic answers are to today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections Today (Game #412) – Clue #2 – Group Answers

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: OFF-TOPIC REMARKS
GREEN: CREATE, AS RESULTS
BLUE: HOT
PURPLE: WORDS REPRESENTED BY THE LETTER “R”

Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL DOWN IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections Today (Game #412) – Answers

NYT Connections Answers for Game 412 on Purple Background

(Photo credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections game, #412, are…

YELLOW: OFF-TOPIC REMARKS SIDE, DETOUR, DIGRESSION, TANGENT
GREEN: CREATE, AS RESULTS CARRY, GENERATE, PRODUCE, RENDER
BLUE: HOT BABE, FOX, SNACK, TEN
PURPLE: WORDS REPRESENTED BY THE LETTER “R” ARE, RADIUS, INVERSE, RIGHT

My ranking: Hard
My score: Perfect

Fortunately, luck is not a limited quality, in the sense that one can be very lucky one day and still be very lucky the next. It happens, doesn’t it? Well, that’s just as well, because otherwise I would have wasted a lifetime of luck on today’s connections.

The first two groups, which I solved in the order green (create results) and yellow (off-topic remarks), were both easy, but things got much harder for the last two. In fact, they got so hard that I literally had no idea what any of the answers were. Zero. Zero. I stared at the board for what seemed like hours, but was actually about 30 minutes, spread out over several sessions, and finally decided to give up. I just couldn’t seem to put FOX, RIGHT, REVERSE, BABE, SNACK, RADIUS, TEN, and ARE together into two groups. I couldn’t even think of a few words that might go together.

Rather than stop playing, I figured I should at least guess blindly, so I picked BABE, FOX, TEN, and SNACK completely at random. Or maybe my unconscious brain spotted something that my conscious brain didn’t? Either way, I guessed those four and… it was spot on! Now, I’ve never, ever heard the term SNACK used to mean a “bomb,” so I don’t know what’s going on there, but I’m not complaining. And no, I wouldn’t have gotten the “R” band – that’s really hard.

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Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Friday, July 26, game #411)

YELLOW: BASIC INSTRUCTIONS DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, UP
GREEN: DEFENDER OF RETURN, CHAMPION, APPROVE, SUPPORT
BLUE: DISADVANTAGE CON, DING, LESS, STRIKE
PURPLE: INSTRUMENT HOMOPHONES BASE, LIAR, LOOT, SYMBOL

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of the many increasingly popular word games created 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 level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a bit harder, blue is often quite hard, and purple is usually very hard.

The good thing is that you don’t need to solve the last problem, because you can answer it by process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you some wiggle room.

It’s a bit more complex than Wordle, though, and the game can trick you a lot. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that might obscure the answers.

It is playable for free via the NYT Games website on computer or mobile.