It's the weekend! And that means you have another chance to solve a weekend Connections puzzle: they're the same as the weekday Connections puzzles, but on a weekend. Yay! Read on for my hints and commentary on today's game.

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.

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years. He's authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a daily today's Wordle answer column and a detailed analysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously.

Today's NYT Connections words are…

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The answers to today's Connections, game #405, are…

There was more classic misdirection from the NYT in today's Connections puzzle, and it cost me a guess early on. I put together GIFT, TALENT, INSTINCT and FLAIR but GIFT was not something that went with the others (even though it could have done). Nor did it go with PRESENT, which was instead used in the context of 'LEAD, AS A TV PROGRAM', together with ANCHOR, HOST and MODERATE.

Instead, GIFT was part of the purple group, which for once I solved myself rather than only getting it by default. This was a rather nice one

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