NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, July 13 (game #398)

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Your weekend starts here, with Connections from the NYT. I had a better game today than I did yesterday – but if you’re struggling, give my hints a look.

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.

Your Connections expert

Marc McLaren
Your Connections expert

Marc McLaren

NYT Connections today (game #398) – today’s words

NYT Connections words for game 398 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

  • LISTEN
  • SOUND
  • WITCH
  • TITANIC
  • AVATAR
  • GIANT
  • LOOK
  • HUSTLE
  • MONSTER
  • FIGURE
  • CASTLE
  • APPEAR
  • PERSONA
  • SEEM
  • MAMMOTH
  • CHARACTER

NYT Connections today (game #398) – hint #1 – group hints

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

  • Yellow: Bigger than that. Even bigger than that
  • Green: Like a person, but not
  • Blue: I think it’s that
  • Purple: Missing letter?

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 #398) – hint #2 – group answers

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: ENORMOUS
  • GREEN: EMBODIMENT
  • BLUE: COME ACROSS AS
  • PURPLE: SILENT “T”

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #398) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 398 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #398, are…

  • YELLOW: ENORMOUS GIANT, MAMMOTH, MONSTER, TITANIC
  • GREEN: EMBODIMENT AVATAR, CHARACTER, FIGURE, PERSONA
  • BLUE: COME ACROSS AS APPEAR, LOOK, SEEM, SOUND
  • PURPLE: SILENT “T” CASTLE, HUSTLE, LISTEN, WITCH

  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

I very much enjoyed this Connections game after yesterday’s travails. None of the groups were remotely difficult bar the final purple one, which I didn’t need to worry about because I’d already solved the other three by then. I can confidently admit that I would have had no chance of solving it if I had needed to, though – those silent Ts would utterly have foxed me.

Fortunately, correctly grouping the likes of ‘words that mean enormous’ was a far simpler task, so I completed today’s puzzle without making any mistakes.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.


Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, 12 July, game #397)

  • YELLOW: SCHOOL FACILITIES AUDITORIUM, GYM, LAB, LIBRARY
  • GREEN: ROULETTE BETS BLACK, EVEN, ODD, RED
  • BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH “DOVE” CHOCOLATE, PEACE, PIGEON, SOAP
  • PURPLE: ___ GOOSE GOLDEN, GREY, MOTHER, SILLY

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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