Welcome back, Connectioneers! If you’re looking for help with today’s puzzling NYT Connections puzzle, I’m here to offer my assistance with some extra clues and the solutions to the Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple groups.
Sunday has come and so the weekend is already rapidly hurtling toward its end. But never fear, the day is long and hopefully lazy and we have some fun puzzle games to play as the rain falls outside.
Let’s group some words.
If you’re looking for Saturday’s Connections guide, it’s right here.
How To Play Connections
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
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There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles.
NYT Connections Hints And Answers – Saturday July 18
Below, we’ll get into some extra hints for each Connections group – Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple – and then the official clues and answers.
Here are today’s Connections words:
- breaker
- sync
- swirl
- fuse
- game
- relay
- flush
- connect
- pair
- refill
- drain
- join
- switch
- straight
- poker
- long
Here’s an Extra Hint for Each Connections Group
- 🟡Yellow group – Say the power goes out, you’ll need to check these.
- 🔵Blue group – After you go potty.
- 🟢Green group – Maybe you have two devices and you need them to interact.
- 🟣Purple group – Don’t let your anger/sadness/glee show.
One Word for Each Connections Group:
- 🟡Yellow group – Breaker
- 🔵Blue group – Flush
- 🟢Green group – Sync
- 🟣Purple group – Poker
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
- Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- 🟡Yellow group – Breaker, Fuse, Relay, Switch
- 🔵Blue group – Drain, Flush, Refill, Swirl
- 🟢Green group – Connect, Join, Pair, Sync
- 🟣Purple group – Game, Long, Poker, Straight
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
- The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow. The Connections answers are:
- 🟡Yellow group – Circuit Components
- 🔵Blue group – Things Toilets Do
- 🟢Green group – Digital Coupling Verbs
- 🟣Purple group – ___ Face Expressions
Here’s the finished grid:
Today’s NYT Connections is a 1/5 on the Connections Bot difficulty scale so about as easy as they come, though it wasn’t entirely without some tricks and red herrings. FLUSH / PAIR / POKER / STRAIGHT being the most obvious misdirect of the bunch. FUSE could easily go with JOIN and so forth. I guess the really easy group was Blue in the end. I mean, we all use toilets!
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