NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, July 18 (game #768)
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 Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, July 17 (game #767).
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 #768) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- SEE
- SPOT
- RUN
- CATCH
- COBRA
- SLIDE
- GUITAR
- STRING
- BLANKET
- BRIDGE
- EEL
- COW
- STREAK
- NOTE
- WHEEL
- SERIES
NYT Connections today (game #768) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Order
- GREEN: I spy
- BLUE: Stretch
- PURPLE: Precede with an energetic word
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 #768) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SEQUENCE
- GREEN: PICK UP ON
- BLUE: YOGA BACKBENDS
- PURPLE: ELECTRIC -___
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #768) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #768, are…
- YELLOW: SEQUENCE RUN, SERIES, STREAK, STRING
- GREEN: PICK UP ON CATCH, NOTE, SEE, SPOT
- BLUE: YOGA BACKBENDS BRIDGE, COBRA, COW, WHEEL
- PURPLE: ELECTRIC -___ BLANKET, EEL, GUITAR, SLIDE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
I was going great guns today until I hit a brick wall with eight words remaining.
I attend a very basic form of yoga – basically it’s for people incapable of doing real yoga – and the teacher will occasionally mention things like the warrior or BRIDGE, but I think the COBRA, COW and WHEEL must be for the more advanced stretchers. I’m still annoyed I didn’t spot the connection, though.
Instead, thinking that SLIDE and GUITAR were connected I somehow fudged a group together with EEL and BRIDGE and after getting one away got the purple group correct without knowing what the connection was. I had to google electric slide to find out it’s a line dance.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, July 17 game #767)
- YELLOW: MEDDLE NOSE AROUND, POKE, PRY, SNOOP
- GREEN: WORDS AFTER “NO” TO MEAN “IT’S ALL GOOD” BIGGIE, HARD FEELINGS, SWEAT, WORRIES
- BLUE: SUPER__ GLUE, MARIO WORLD, PAC, POWER
- PURPLE: ENDING WITH FISH CAMISOLE, CAPE COD, DRUM AND BASS, WU-TANG
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.
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