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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, July 20 (game #770).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #771) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- FREEZING
- FOOT
- EXTRA
- CONTRACTION
- ICING
- SHRINKAGE
- CONDENSATION
- MELTING
- POSSESSIVE
- YADA YADA
- BONUS
- REGIFTING
- FESTIVUS
- QUOTE
- GRAVY
- VAPORIZATION
NYT Connections today (game #771) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Something on top
- GREEN: States of water
- BLUE: Jerry and friends
- PURPLE: A punctuation mark in common
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…
NYT Connections today (game #771) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: ADDITIONAL PERK
- GREEN: PHASE TRANSITIONS FOR LIQUIDS
- BLUE: CONCEPTS FROM “SEINFELD”
- PURPLE: WHAT ‘ CAN INDICATE
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #771) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #771, are…
- YELLOW: ADDITIONAL PERK BONUS, EXTRA, GRAVY, ICING
- GREEN: PHASE TRANSITIONS FOR LIQUIDS CONDENSATION, FREEZING, MELTING, VAPORIZATION
- BLUE: CONCEPTS FROM “SEINFELD” FESTIVUS, REGIFTING, SHRINKAGE, YADA YADA
- PURPLE: WHAT ‘ CAN INDICATE CONTRACTION, FOOT, POSSESSIVE, QUOTE
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I interpret the idiom ‘it’s all GRAVY’ as meaning that being alive and healthy is already fantastic and whatever else life brings you is a bonus. Other people may interpret it as an endless supply of free gravy or possibly that everything tastes like gravy, but either way it’s a positive thing. Well, unless you don’t like gravy.
Anyway, I digress. Today’s gift from Connections was the wonderful CONCEPTS FROM “SEINFELD” including, in my opinion, its crowning achievement in creating a public holiday for “the rest of us”. An excuse for me to watch a couple of classic episodes in my lunch hour.
Fortunately, I had the other three groups quickly completed before I had to even contemplate the purple foursome.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, July 20, game #770)
- YELLOW: MOVE TO THE MUSIC BOP, BOUNCE, GROOVE, SWAY
- GREEN: INHALATION DRAG, DRAW, PUFF, PULL
- BLUE: MARTINI SPECIFICATIONS DRY, GIN, SHAKEN, TWIST
- PURPLE: ___WORD BUZZ, CROSS, LOAN, PASS
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
