The New York Times Connections puzzle persists in challenging and delighting with its complex logic and nested categories. Sunday’s puzzle (Puzzle #742) stayed true to the weekend tradition of heightened difficulty, delivering a puzzle that may have seemed simple on the surface, but concealed richer, more devious threads underneath.
Some players might have been confused by surface appearance, words such as ‘flash’ or ‘progressive’ have modern media or politics written all over them, but as the grid revealed itself, the reasoning behind the groupings required close attention to context, history, and doublespeak.
Whether you were baffled or quickly saw the , here is a complete analysis of today’s grid and what connects it.
