NYT Connections #719: Today’s Puzzle Categories and Solutions

NYT word puzzle Connections targets players with yet another daily brain teaser, with today’s game (#719) offering yet another challenging set of word groupings to test the participant’s reasoning and pattern recognition skills. Four theme categories line up in today’s puzzle, crossing the spectrum from ordinary objects to language challenges. 

The yellow group highlights lucifer-type rod-like implements; the green group sheds light on what can be found on rolls. They are to make these connections from sixteen seemingly unrelated words.

The blue group is merchandise items in the utmost promotional sense of free giveaways at events, and purple tests their knowledge of compound words with a particular suffix. The presence of multiple themes gives evidence of the puzzle’s ability to use different kinds of knowledge and thinking patterns

Complete Solutions Revealed

Category	Theme	Answer Words	Difficulty
Yellow	Rods	BAT, CLUB, STAFF, STICK	Easy
Green	They’re On A Roll!	FOIL, RIBBON, TAPE, TOILET PAPER	Medium
Blue	Common Swag Items	HAT, TEE, TOTE, WATER BOTTLE	Medium
Purple	Words Before “Shack”	CADDY, LOVE, RADIO, SHAKE	Hard