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Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers.

And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers.

NYT Connections board for July 5, 2024: YEN, BOND, MAD, POWER, EURO, O, Q, LONG, M, K, PINE, BUBBLEGUM, NATURE, DESIRE, MONEYPENNY.

Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!

Green category - You might buy these publications in the checkout line at the grocery store, for example.

Blue category - Iconic figures in a British spy franchise.

Purple category - Subgenres of a fizzy, casual key in of music often played on the radio.

BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!

Were about to give away some of the answers.

Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled.

(The full solution is a bit further down.)

(I had to Google YEN, in full transparency.)

PINE is a verb, and does not go with NATURE.

What are the categories in todays Connections?

I give them all away below.

What are the yellow words in todays Connections?

The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward.

What are the green words in todays Connections?

The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest.

What are the blue words in todays Connections?

The blue grouping is the second-hardest.

What are the purple words in todays Connections?

The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.

EURO and YEN are the only two currencies Im sure of, so Ill keep looking around.

EURO and POWER could be part of a ___ TRIP category, but Im not sure yet.

NATURE is a scientific journal and the rest are more casual magazines.

Oh, maybe thatiscorrect, because the other four words all look like pop genres.

That means BUBBLEGUM, EURO, K, and POWER are all types of pop music.

Youll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase.

Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common.

Select four items and hit the Submit button.

If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed.

(Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.)

If your guess was incorrect, youll get a chance to take another crack.

You win when youve correctly identified all four groups.

But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.

Expect to see overlapping groups.

So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four containsonlythose four things.

If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to havenoconnection to the others.

Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!