A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, July 19 (game #769).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #770) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- ВОР
- DRAW
- CROSS
- BUZZ
- DRY
- LOAN
- PULL
- SWAY
- BOUNCE
- TWIST
- DRAG
- SHAKEN
- PASS
- GROOVE
- GIN
- PUFF
NYT Connections today (game #770) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Almost dancing
- GREEN: Breathe in
- BLUE: Not stirred
- PURPLE: Add a word
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 #770) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MOVE TO THE MUSIC
- GREEN: INHALATION
- BLUE: MARTINI SPECIFICATIONS
- PURPLE: ___WORD
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #770) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #770, are…
- YELLOW: MOVE TO THE MUSIC BOP, BOUNCE, GROOVE, SWAY
- GREEN: INHALATION DRAG, DRAW, PUFF, PULL
- BLUE: MARTINI SPECIFICATIONS DRY, GIN, SHAKEN, TWIST
- PURPLE: ___WORD BUZZ, CROSS, LOAN, PASS
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
Today I got the idea stuck in my head that there was a group about a card game, so I had DRAW, PULL, PASS and CROSS. Fortunately, I abandoned this idea before I made any more mistakes.
Getting MARTINI SPECIFICATIONS helped narrow things down and led to me finding the green and yellow groups.
A good thing, as I would have struggled to find the fourth member of the purple quartet after BUZZ, cross and pass, but today I learned that loanword is a word adopted from a foreign language with little or no modification.
There are some obvious examples, such as safari, karaoke and guru, but also some surprising ones like cookie, which comes from the Dutch language, and cartoon – which originated in Italian.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, July 19 game #769)
- YELLOW: SOURCES OF DRINKING WATER RAIN, SPRING, TAP, WELL
- GREEN: THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A FOOTBALL PASS, PUNT, SNAP, SPIKE
- BLUE: SHARP FASTENERS BRAD, NAIL, PIN, TACK
- PURPLE: STARTS OF TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES DON, LEO, MIC, RAP
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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