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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 16 (Game #1131).
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 #1132) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- FAUCET GAME
- SATIRES
- TICKETS
- CARDINAL GUIDELINES
- SWAN SONG
- DOCTOR
- ROBIN HOOD
- PLOT SPOILERS
- TRUNK
- TOKENS
- SEASONS
- EPILOGUE
- LAST DANCE
- CLASSIC ELEMENTS
- GOODBYE
- PINBALL
NEW Connections today (game #1132) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Last hurray
- GREEN: As seen on the game center
- BLUE: Think of a number after three
- PURPLE: Vehicle parts
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 #1132) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: GRAND FINALE
- GREEN: SEEN IN AN ARCADE
- BLUE: FOUR GROUPS OF FOUR
- PURPLE: END IN PARTS OF A CAR
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1132) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1132, are…
- YELLOW: GRAND FINALE: EPILOGUE, FAREWELL, LAST DANCE, SWAN SONG
- GREEN: SET IN AN ARCADE: CRANE GAMES, PINBALL, TICKETS, TOKENS
- BLUE: FOUR GROUPS OF FOUR: CARDINAL DIRECTIONS, CLASSIC ELEMENTS, SEASONS, SUITS
- PURPLE: END IN PARTS OF A CAR: PLOT SPOILERS, ROBIN HOOD, SATIRES, TREE TRUNKS
- My assessment: Easy
- My score: Perfect
Even though I didn’t get a purple first, I was glad I managed to END UP IN PARTS OF A CAR at all, since I know nothing about cars at all.
This particular group needed to translate from American English to British English for me, because here a trunk is a boot and a spoiler is a bumper.
GRAND FINALE was simple, though EPILOG feels like the odd one out of the quartet, as it’s possible to end a career and then have an EPILOG years later – a movie star returning as a director, for example, or a boxer carelessly coming out of retirement to beat up a YouTuber.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answer (Thursday, July 16, 2026, Game #1131)
- YELLOW: SKIN CARE PRODUCTS: CLAY MASK, EYE CREAM, PEEL, TONER
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH SMALL MARKS: DOT MATRIX, PERIODIC PIECE, DOT FRAGMENT, STAIN REMOVER
- BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH PRECISION: BULLSEYE, CLOCK, LASER, NEEDLE
- GREEN: SHADES OF BLACK: CHARCOAL, INK, JET, PITCH
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.
