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NYT Connections game #607 was published on Friday, February 7, 2025. Below are spoiler-safe hints, the 16-word board, and the complete answers—stop before the answer section if you are still solving.
Spoiler-safe hints for Connections #607
- Yellow: Bossing it.
- Green: Bouncy material.
- Blue: Magically appear in an enchanted folktale.
- Purple: Precede with a color.
These hints and the puzzle date are reported by TechRadar’s February 7 game guide.
The 16 words on the board
BLUE, VELVET, RUN, TIRE, LEAD, BALLOON, ERASER, HEAD, BULL, LAMP, CROSS, WISHES, DIRECT, GALOSH, EARRING, HERRING.
Full answers for game #607
Spoilers below. Each group contains four words linked by a shared theme.
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Yellow — BE IN CHARGE OF
DIRECT, HEAD, LEAD, RUN.
Green — THINGS MADE OF RUBBER
BALLOON, ERASER, GALOSH, TIRE.
Blue — ASSOCIATED WITH THE GENIE IN “ALADDIN”
BLUE, EARRING, LAMP, WISHES.
Purple — RED ___
BULL, CROSS, HERRING, VELVET. Add “red” to make the familiar phrases red bull, red cross, red herring, and red velvet.
The four answer groups and labels are reported by Forbes’ guide to the puzzle and TechRadar. Connections asks players to sort 16 words into four sets of four; as described in a general study of lateral-thinking puzzles, solving can involve abstract links as well as ordinary word meanings, with plausible distractors adding difficulty: “Missed Connections: Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Large Language Models”.
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TechRadar says Connections is available through the NYT Games site on desktop and mobile. Forbes reported in February 2025 that the archive of previous puzzles was available to readers with an NYT All Access or Games subscription; that access description is dated, so check the current archive terms with the New York Times before relying on it.
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