NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, June 26 (game #746)

Date:
Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:35:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each
day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 25 (game #745) .

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #746) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are LOVELACE ENIGMA SEWING SUITS VENDING
HAWKING DRESSING MCQUEEN GOLIATH PROTEIN PINBALL DAMAGES CHEESE BOJACK
MATLOCK LETTUCE NYT Connections today (game #746) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Think:
Healthy cold dish GREEN: All mechanical BLUE: TV lawyers PURPLE: Top deck

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT
Connections today (game #746) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: COMPONENTS
OF A SALAD GREEN: KINDS OF MACHINES BLUE: LEGAL DRAMAS PURPLE: ENDING WITH PLAYING CARDS

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #746) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #746, are 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 My rating: Hard My score: 1 mistake

Id like to say that I saw four words ENDING WITH PLAYING CARDS, but I thought I was making up a group of famous Stephens. This was entirely based on
HAWKING and MCQUEEN. I guessed at BOJACK, but my one mistake came when I picked MATLOCK instead of LOVELACE.

Meanwhile, I am sure that the Connections debate of the day will be over COMPONENTS OF A SALAD a category that could include many things, like
tomato, cucumber, celery and indeed LETTUCE, but CHEESE? Is cheese that
common a salad feature to warrant being a component?

I was pleased to see VENDING amid KINDS OF MACHINES. It is surely one of
lifes great pleasures to buy something from a vending machine and see two items instead of the purchased one clunk down into the bucket.

Of course there is the equal irritation of putting your money in and nothing coming out at which point you must resist trying to put your hand into the machine, Homer Simpson-style, and just remember that life is a balance sheet of gains and losses. And also, to sometimes let go.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, June 25, game #745) YELLOW: KINDS OF CHEESES BLUE, GOAT, JACK, SWISS GREEN: BEVERAGE SELF-SERVICE ITEMS CUP, LID, NAPKIN, STRAW BLUE: WOODWORKING HAND TOOLS CHISEL, PLANE, RASP, SAW PURPLE: BIRDS MINUS LAST LETTER CRAN, FLAMING, HERO, RAVE What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green
is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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