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The desire to keep yourConnectionsstreak alive with today’s puzzle is very understandable, as it is quite addictive and frustrating when you get it wrong. Often we are just one word away from finishing the puzzle and the wrong guess can end your game and your streak. We can help you avoid those problems by giving you everything you need to not fail.
After you finishConnections, you can keep your win-rate going by playing theNYT’sMini-Crossword, which gives you all thejoy of the classic puzzle in a bite-sized manageable chunk. It is perfect for standing in line, waiting for the bus, or a quick work break in the middle of the day. TheMiniis always a five-by-five puzzle, utilizing five-letter words and multiple shorter words to solve the puzzles.
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Today’s Connections Category Hints
JULY 5 #389
Today’s puzzle will be more or less difficult depending on your familiarity with the categories. While that is almost always true to some extent, there are very specific categories today that you will not get the connection for if you have not heard of them. To help you out, here are the categories to get you started.
PINE
YEN
This category is not as specific as the others, rather representing the yearning for something. DESIRE and LONG felt obvious to us. Looking at the other options, PINE seemed to be the next option, although perhaps sounding a bit melodramatic. We admit we had to look up what YEN meant to add it to this category, as we were only familiar with it as a currency.
NATURE
O
This one stumped us, admittedly, as the world grows increasingly digital and growing up without any magazine subscriptions except forZoobooks(now rebranded) made it hard to recognize any of these as magazines. Unfortunately, this proved to be our downfall today, and we have reconsidered perusing the magazine section ofBarnes & Noble.
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MONEYPENNY
M
Another quite specific category, this one includes two of the single letter options in today’s puzzle. That can be a red herring in and of itself, but we are more familiar with BOND movies than we are with magazines. This made it easier for us to guess this category, which we did before attempting to figure out what magazines were.
K
POWER
We might have figured out the magazine issues if we had known more about pop genres. K Pop we could have guessed, but not knowing the others made it more difficult. Those more musically inclined will likely find this category quite easy, as will magazine lovers find the others. Overall, today’s puzzle caters to very specific interests, so hopefully we have helped you solve it.
Other Games Like Connections
After you have read your favorite magazines - likeZoobooks, while listening to your favorite pop genre and before watching your favorite Bond movie, check out one of the following word-based puzzles:
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Wordle(NYT)
Solve a random five-letter word by using color clues.EveryWordleanswercan be found in our daily updated list.
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