NYT Connections July 15 Clues and Answers (#400)

Connections is a game from The New York Times that challenges you to find the association between words. It sounds easy, but it’s not: The categories of connections can be almost anything, and they’re usually pretty specific. If you need help finding the answers, we’ve got you covered.

What is Connections?

Connections is a game from The New York Times. The goal is simple: sort 16 words into groups of four. Each group of words will be connected by a common idea or theme. That common element can be anything. We’ve seen everything from games that rely on the number of letters in words to categories that ask you to spot an extra letter at the end of a word. Sometimes these are references to economics, other times they’re fairy tales. There’s no telling what kind of association the words will make.

Once you are sure you understand the link, select 4 words and click “Submit”. You only have four attempts in total, so don’t just guess.

Tips for Today’s Connection Groups

Here are some 400th Connections game tips to help you get started:

  • YELLOW: When you adhere to an idea.
  • Green: A false appearance.
  • Blue: On the wall, on the table, hanging from the ceiling?
  • Purple: Quantities of alcohol.
July 15 Connecting Words.

If you still need help, the actual names of the groups are:

  • YELLOW: Consider as true
  • Green: Facade
  • Blue: Ways to Secure a TV
  • Purple: Liquor Bottle Sizes

Answers from today’s NYT Connections

July 15 Connecting words sorted into their groups.

Consider as true (yellow):

Accept, believe, buy, trust

Facade (Green):

Bluff, Front, Sham, Show

Ways to Secure a TV (Blue):

Base, support, mounting, plinth

Liquor Bottle Sizes (Purple):

Fifth, Handle, Liter, Pint

How did we solve this connection game?

July 15th wasn’t too difficult, even Purple was deceptively simple.

The first word I looked at was liter, and that immediately made me think of the volume of liquid. Pint is also a unit of volume, so that seemed like a safe bet. From there, it got a little trickier, though. I eventually realized that fifth and handful are also ways to describe quantities of liquid, if you’re talking about alcohol, anyway. The purple group was “Liquid Bottle Sizes.”

Base, stand, mount, and pedestal are all ways to attach or support something. In this case, blue stood for “ways to mount a TV,” although these words also work as a group for a ton of other things.

Accept, believe, buy, and trust are all words that can mean “accept as true,” so I just put them in a group. They were in the yellow group, which was “regard as true.”

All that was left was bluff, facade, imposture, spectacle. These words are all related to some kind of deception, but I couldn’t narrow them down any further. In this situation, the Connections deck didn’t do it either: green was literally just “facade.”

No crazy twists and turns today!

How do you guess the connection groups?

There is no quick and reliable method to approach Connections like there is with Wordle, because Connections is not algorithmic. However, there are a few things to keep in mind that may help you.

  1. Find similar parts of speech. Are some words verbs and some nouns? Are some adjectives? Try mentally grouping them according to these categories and see if any other patterns jump out at you.
  2. Are the words synonyms? Sometimes the categories will just be synonyms of a phrase, or very close to synonyms. Don’t rely on this too much, though. Sometimes Connections will deliberately add words that are Sometimes synonyms to mislead you.
  3. Try to say the words. Sometimes it helps to sound out the words. One of the puzzles we saw included the words go, rate, faster, clip, pace, speed, move, commute, and hurry, all of which are obviously related to the idea of ​​movement. However, when you sound them out, it becomes a little more obvious that only four of them (go, move, hurry, faster) are words you would actually say to get someone to move.
  4. Expect that red herring. Connections typically contain words that could be plausibly but incorrectly grouped together. Take the words Bud, Corona, and Light, for example. You might instinctively see these three words together and assume they are grouped into a beer-related category, but that is not the case.
  5. Look for distinct words. If a word on your board doesn’t have multiple meanings or can only really be used in one context, try using that word as the basis for a category.
  6. Shuffle the board. Sometimes moving the words around will help you look at them in a new light.

If you haven’t been able to solve this problem, don’t feel too bad: there’s always tomorrow! And these words might be relevant to a topic that interests you, giving you a head start on the competition.

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