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A new NEW Connections puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people are always playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s”. If you’re looking for the Thursday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Thursday, July 23rd (Game #1138).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
What are you going to do when you’re done? Why, play some more puns of course. I also have daily Strands Hints and Answers and Quordle Hints and Answers articles if you need help with those too, while Marc’s Wordle Today page covers the original viral pun.
SPOILER ALERT: Today’s NYT Connections information is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NEW Connections today (game #1139) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- SPARK
- GALLOP
- LLAMA
- JOG
- GO
- YAY
- SINGLE
- NO
- COLLECTION
- FAST
- FRYER
- DRONE
- REFRESH
- EXTRACT
- BABEL
- HOME RUN
NEW Connections today (game #1139) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Chat too long
- GREEN: Baseball terms
- BLUE: Reboot the brain
- PURPLE: It sounds divine
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…
NEW Connections today (game #1139) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TALK AT LENGTH
- GREEN: RESULTS FOR A DOUGH
- BLUE: REMEMBER AS A MEMORY
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF RELIGIOUS ROLES
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1139) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1139, are…
- YELLOW: NUMBER IN LENGTH: BABBLE, DRONE, RAMBLE, YAK
- GREEN: RESULTS FOR A DOUGH: HOME RUNS, SINGLES, STRIKEOUTS, WALKS
- BLUE: REMEMBER AS A MEMORY: JOG, ASK, UPDATE, KICK
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF RELIGIOUS ROLES: GALLOP, FRYER, LAMA, NONE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
Yesterday “baseball” was one of the tiles, and today it appeared to be one of the categories. However, I was wary of a trap, so I decided to steer clear of HOME RUN, WALK, and STRIKEOUT until later in the game—not least because I couldn’t see a fourth obvious baseball term.
Instead, I decided to lump WALK, RAMBLE, JOG and CANTER into one group, which I thought meant slow motion. Alas, I was very wrong. Finally I saw the right group for RAMBLE and was on my way.
Feeling brave, I added SINGLES to my baseball list and landed RESULTS FOR A BATTER group and successfully saw the four pieces associated with BRING TO MIND LIKE A MEMORY. Close to a STRIKEOUT, but far from a HOME RUN.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answer (Thursday, July 23, 2026, Game #1138)
- YELLOW: Spherical things: BASEBALL, GLOBE, MARBLE, ORANGE
- GREEN: IN AN ANXIOUS STATE: TENSION, FEBRIOUS, FRENTIC, INTENSE
- BLUE: PARTS OF AN AIRPORT: APRON, HANGAR, RUNWAY, TERMINAL
- PURPLE: ENDS WITH GEOMETRY: DEPLANE, DEPLANE, FELINE, JANGLE
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different degree of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough, and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the last one, as you’ll be able to answer it by a process of elimination. Also, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a bit more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you beat yourself up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that can hide the answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
