Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 5, 2024 (Puzzle #389)
The desire to keep your streak alive with today's puzzle is very understandable, as it is quite addictive and frustrating when you get it wrong. Often we are just one word away from finishing the puzzle and the wrong guess can end your game and your streak. We can help you avoid those problems by giving you everything you need to not fail.
After you finish, you can keep your win-rate going by playing the NYT's , which gives you all thejoy of the classic puzzle in a bite-sized manageable chunk. It is perfect for standing in line, waiting for the bus, or a quick work break in the middle of the day. The is always a five-by-five puzzle, utilizing five-letter words and multiple shorter words to solve the puzzles.
The Tiles game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to use various strategies to pair matching visual patterns together to build huge combos.
Today's puzzle will be more or less difficult depending on your familiarity with the categories. While that is almost always true to some extent, there are very specific categories today that you will not get the connection for if you have not heard of them. To help you out, here are the categories to get you started.
YEARN
MAGAZINES
CHARACTERS IN BOND MOVIES
WORDS THAT PRECEDE «POP» IN MUSIC GENRES
YEARN
DESIRE
LONG
PINE
YEN
This category is not as specific as the others, rather representing the yearning for something. DESIRE and LONG felt obvious to us. Looking at the other options, PINE seemed to be the next option, although perhaps sounding a bit melodramatic. We admit we had to look up what YEN meant to add it to this category, as we were only familiar with it as a currency.
MAGAZINES
FORTUNE
MAD
NATURE
O
This one stumped us, admittedly, as the world grows increasingly digital and growing up without any magazine subscriptions except for (now rebranded) made it hard to recognize any of these as magazines. Unfortunately, this proved to be our downfall today, and we have reconsidered perusing the
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