These hints and answers are for Thursday, June 26, 2025, Connections puzzle #746—not the different puzzle published on June 26, 2024. Start with the spoiler-light nudges below, or jump to the clearly marked solutions if you’re ready to see the groups.
Hints for Connections #746
Try each nudge before revealing a category name or the four answers.
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- Yellow: Think of ingredients in a cold dish.
- Green: Each word can describe a kind of machine.
- Blue: These are television dramas about law or legal cases.
- Purple: Focus on the last letters: each word ends with a playing-card term.
Category names
The category labels, in color order from easiest to trickiest, are:
- Yellow: Components of a salad
- Green: Kinds of machines
- Blue: Legal dramas
- Purple: Ending with playing cards
Full answers for June 26, 2025
Spoilers below: the complete groups and all 16 words are listed here.
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- 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
Why the purple group fits
The trick is to take the final letters of each word as a card name: BOJACK ends in JACK, HAWKING in KING, LOVELACE in ACE, and MCQUEEN in QUEEN. The other groups use more direct meanings: salad components, types of machines, and television legal dramas.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.How Connections works
Connections asks you to sort 16 words into four groups of four. The groups are color-coded from yellow, generally the easiest, through purple, generally the trickiest. Some words may seem to fit more than one category, but each puzzle has one solution, according to the NYT Help Center.
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