NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, July 26

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.

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 26

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:

• crawling
• gas station
• discman
• blackberry
• scotch mist
• plasma tv
• first words
• pastry crust
• april showers
• liquid sunshine
• dvd player
• rolling over
• rowing boat
• wet weather
• carapace
• solid food

Here’s an Extra Hint for Each Connections Group

• 🟡Yellow group – Young parents, take heed.
• 🟢Green group – Used to be cutting edge, now it’s in the trash bin (or a storage box).
• 🔵Blue group – Not descriptions of a blue sky sunny day.
• 🟣Purple group – Think of what you might find on that beach.

One Word for Each Connections Group:

• 🟡Yellow group – first words
• 🟢Green group – plasma tv
• 🔵Blue group – scotch mist
• 🟣Purple group – gas station

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

• Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
• 🟡Yellow group – baby milestones
• 🟢Green group – outmoded consumer tech
• 🔵Blue group – expressions for rain
• 🟣Purple group – what “shell” might refer to

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 – crawling, first words, rolling over, solid food
• 🟢Green group – blackberry, discman, dvd player, plasma tv
• 🔵Blue group – april showers, liquid sunshine, scotch mist, wet weather
• 🟣Purple group – carapace, gas station, pastry crust, rowing boat

Here’s the finished puzzle in the order I solved it:

Today’s NYT Connections is a 1/5 on the Connections Bot difficulty scale so about as easy as they come, and I think it relied on the two-word combos to hopefully throw people off. Unfortunately, even though some of these were super obscure – LIQUID SUNSHINE and SCOTCH MIST are not phrases I’m familiar with – most everything else in the Yellow, Green and Blue categories was shockingly obvious. Not much in the way of red herrings or really anything to make this a particularly interesting or impressive Connections puzzle other than the Purple group. I admit, that’s a pretty clever way to connect “SHELL.”

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