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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 2nd (Game #1117).
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 #1118) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- HOT DRINK
- ROUND RACE
- FELICITY
- SHIRT
- WARM FUZZIES
- GOSSIP
- MEAT BEANS
- PROTECTED APPEARANCE
- COLD
- SHOULDER
- HAPPINESS
- RIGHT ON
- HARD TIME
- FAR OUT
- GOLF
- ACCESSORIES
- HAPPINESS
- GROOVY
NEW Connections today (game #1118) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Good vibes
- GREEN: Vintage positivity
- BLUE: Dating rejection
- PURPLE: The letter after S is?
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 #1118) – hint #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: POSITIVE FEELINGS
- GREEN: RETRO APPROVAL SOUND
- BLUE: BAD THINGS TO GIVE SOMEONE
- PURPLE: WHAT THINGS PRONOUNCED “T” CAN REFER TO
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1118) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1118, are…
- YELLOW: POSITIVE FEELINGS HAPPINESS, JOY, HAPPINESS, WARM FUZZIES
- GREEN: RETRO APPROVAL SOUND SWEET BEANS, WAY OUT, GROOVY, RIGHT ON
- BLUE: BAD THINGS TO GIVE SOMEONE COLD SHOULDER, PROTECTED APPEARANCE, HAIRY TIME, AROUND
- PURPLE: WHAT THINGS PRONOUNCED “T” CAN REFER TO GOLF ACCESSORIES, STREETS, HOT DRINKS, SHIRTS
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
I don’t have many POSITIVE FEELINGS about today’s game.
You know how you sometimes don’t include a tile in a group because it feels too “on the nose”? I had it today with HAPPINESS, so when I realized the group was all about happiness, I chose COOL BEANS, GROOVY, and FAR OUT instead, before I saw that these were the kinds of things guys would say to each other in the 1970s.
RETRO STATEMENTS OF APPROVAL out of the way I finally claimed the elusive yellow group and then BAD THINGS TO GIVE SOMEONE.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Thursday, July 2nd, Game #1117)
- YELLOW: THEY IMPERSONATE OTHER THINGS COPYCAT, MIME, MOCKINGBIRD, T-1000
- GREEN: OLD-TIME NAMES FOR THINGS WE STILL USE LOOKING GLASS, GLASSES, TALKIE, WATER CABINET
- BLUE: STARTS WITH NICKNAMES BILLY GOAT, DAN DAN NOODLES, RICH TEXT, TOM-TOM
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH SPORTS PLACE COURT SNARE, DIAMOND RING, FIELD MOUSE, TRACK RECORD
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.
