These are the spoiler-safe hints and full answers for Thursday, June 26, 2025—Connections game #746. Read the four category clues first, then open the solutions section when you are ready.
Spoiler-safe hints
Connections gives you 16 words and asks you to divide them into four groups of four. Yellow is generally the easiest category, followed by green, blue and purple.
Yellow
Healthy cold dish
Green
All mechanical
Blue
TV lawyers
Purple
Top deck
The June 26, 2025 board
The 16 words in game #746 were:
- LOVELACE
- ENIGMA
- SEWING
- SUITS
- VENDING
- HAWKING
- DRESSING
- MCQUEEN
- GOLIATH
- PROTEIN
- PINBALL
- DAMAGES
- CHEESE
- BOJACK
- MATLOCK
- LETTUCE
Answers and explanations
Spoilers begin here.
Yellow: Components of a salad
CHEESE, DRESSING, LETTUCE, PROTEIN
Green: Kinds of machines
ENIGMA, PINBALL, SEWING, VENDING
Blue: Legal dramas
DAMAGES, GOLIATH, MATLOCK, SUITS
Purple: Ending with playing cards
BOJACK, HAWKING, LOVELACE, MCQUEEN
Each purple entry can be followed by a playing-card term: BoJack Horseman, Stephen Hawking, Ada Lovelace and Steve McQueen are the intended names, with the connection relying on the resulting titles or names that end in card terms.
How Connections timing and the archive work
The New York Times releases a new Connections puzzle at midnight in each player’s local timezone. The game is available on the NYT website and in its Games and News apps.
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The official archive reaches back to June 12, 2023. NYT guidance says archive access is available to All Access and Games subscribers, and archived puzzles do not count toward release-day streaks. Eligibility and account requirements can change, so check the current NYT game and archive screens for the access available to you.
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