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Hints for Connections #729
Try these clues before revealing the category names or answers:
- PC actions.
- Things you do before a purchase or event to secure something.
- A group like the one in The Sopranos.
- NYT game levels, each with a letter missing.
Connections gives players 16 words to divide into four groups of four. The categories are color-coded Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple, from easiest to trickiest, and the daily puzzle releases at midnight in the player’s timezone, according to the NYT Help Center.
Category names
- Yellow: KEYBOARD SHORTCUT COMMANDS
- Green: SECURE IN ADVANCE
- Blue: CRIME ORGANIZATION
- Purple: SPELLING BEE RANKS MINUS A LETTER
Full answers for June 9
Yellow — KEYBOARD SHORTCUT COMMANDS: PASTE, PRINT, QUIT, SAVE
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Green — SECURE IN ADVANCE: BOOK, ORDER, REQUEST, RESERVE
Blue — CRIME ORGANIZATION: CREW, FAMILY, RING, SYNDICATE
Purple — SPELLING BEE RANKS MINUS A LETTER: GENUS, GOO, MAZING, SLID
Why the purple group works
The purple set points to ranks in NYT’s Spelling Bee, with one letter removed from each rank term: GENIUS becomes GENUS, GOOD becomes GOO, AMAZING becomes MAZING, and SOLID becomes SLID. The missing letters are I, D, A, and O respectively.
Where to play or find older puzzles
The NYT Help Center lists the Games app, nytimes.com/games/connections, nytimes.com/theathletic, and the News app as ways to play. It says Connections puzzles have one solution, with word choices that can seem to fit more than one category; categories are curated by editors using the Oxford Dictionary. The archive goes back to June 12, 2023, and is available to All Access and Games subscribers.
TechRadar’s writer rated this puzzle “Moderate” and reported one mistake, initially putting SAVE in the advance-booking group instead of ORDER. That is one solver’s experience, not an official difficulty rating or a measure of how players performed overall. TechRadar’s June 9 puzzle guide, Try Hard Guides’ answer page, and Parade’s hint and answer guide also cover #729.
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