NYT Connections #735, from Sunday, June 15, 2025, groups its 16 words around coffee slang, mild exclamations, movie-rating considerations and meanings of “pop.” Use the color hints below first if you want to solve it without seeing the categories, or jump to the full answer key.
Spoiler-safe hints for Connections #735
- Yellow: Cafe culture.
- Green: Low-level anger.
- Blue: PG rated.
- Purple: Different meanings for a word that rhymes with “stop.”
Full answers for June 15, 2025
Spoilers below: These are the four category names and all 16 answers.
- 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.
How to approach the puzzle
A useful solving order is to start with the most concrete connection: BREW, JAVA, MUD and ROCKET FUEL are all slang terms for coffee. Next, look for the movie-rating considerations in ACTION, LANGUAGE, NUDITY and SMOKING. BLAST, CRUD, CURSES and FUDGE form a set of softened exclamations. That leaves the trickier wordplay: “pop” can refer to a burst, a father, something popular or soda.
This is a suggested route based on the published categories, not an official solving method. Connections presents 16 words to sort into four groups of four, color-coded from yellow (easiest) through green and blue to purple (hardest). Players can make up to four mistakes.
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