NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, June 29 (game #384)

It's the weekend, which means you have more time in which to solve Connections! And you might need it – because this one is potentially tricky. There are hints below if you need them.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #384) - today's words

Today's NYT Connections words are…

• SAT

• MAY

• SUN

• WALL

• WED

• PUT

• COUPLE

• TWO

• TIE

• TUE

• LAID

• TOO

• WILD

• PLACED

• UNITE

NYT Connections today (game #384) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• Yellow: Follow them!

• Green: I you

• Blue: Sub-group

• Purple: All that glitters

• YELLOW: HOMOPHONES

• GREEN: CONNECT

• BLUE: PLACED DOWN

• PURPLE: ___FLOWER

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…

NYT Connections today (game #384) - hint #2 - group answers

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

• YELLOW: HOMOPHONES

• GREEN: CONNECT

• BLUE: PLACED DOWN

• PURPLE: ___FLOWER

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #384) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #384, are…

• BLUE: PLACED DOWN LAID, PLACED, PUT, SAT

• GREEN: CONNECT COUPLE, TIE, UNITE, WED

• YELLOW: HOMOPHONES TO, TOO, TUE, TWO

• PURPLE: ___FLOWER MAY, SUN, WALL, WILD

• My rating: Moderate

• My score: 1 hint

I always struggle when Connections uses lots of short words. I guess it makes sense – there tend to be more ways in which they could be used as prefixes etc. Anyway, that probably explains why I made a mistake early on here, guessing TUE, WED, SAT and SUN as days of the week, only to find out I was on the wrong track.

The breakthrough came when I looked at one of the longer words, PLACED, and formed the blue group. Like that one, green was simple synonyms, and with only eight words left the homophones of the yellow group became apparent.

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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, 28 June, game #383)

• PURPLE: UNDERWEAR IN THE SINGULAR BOXER, BRIEF, DRAWER, SHORT

• GREEN: WIGGLE ROOM FREEDOM, LATITUDE, LICENSE, SLACK

• BLUE: INDICATION TO PROCEED CUE, PROMPT, SIGNAL, WORD

• YELLOW: TYPES OF BAGS CLUTCH, MESSENGER, SATCHEL, TOTE

What is NYT Connections?

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.