NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, July 19 (game #769)
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 Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, July 18 (game #768).
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 #769) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- TACK
- TAP
- RAP
- SNAP
- LEO
- BRAD
- SPIKE
- DON
- NAIL
- WELL
- MIC
- PASS
- SPRING
- RAIN
- PUNT
- PIN
NYT Connections today (game #769) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Where the stuff of life comes from
- GREEN: Pigskin possibilities
- BLUE: Hold things together
- PURPLE: How an animated animal collective begin
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 #769) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SOURCES OF DRINKING WATER
- GREEN: THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A FOOTBALL
- BLUE: SHARP FASTENERS
- PURPLE: STARTS OF TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #769) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #769, are…
- YELLOW: SOURCES OF DRINKING WATER RAIN, SPRING, TAP, WELL
- GREEN: THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A FOOTBALL PASS, PUNT, SNAP, SPIKE
- BLUE: SHARP FASTENERS BRAD, NAIL, PIN, TACK
- PURPLE: STARTS OF TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES DON, LEO, MIC, RAP
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Fail
I was at a distinct disadvantage today, knowing nothing about football (of the American kind) or Mutant Ninja Turtles, but that wasn’t the reason why I crashed out.
Like many, I am sure, seeing BRAD and LEO beside each other on the board immediately made me think of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio so I spent ages trying to find a group that was something to do with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood – wasting a mistake on a wild guess.
My next three mistakes came before I’d even got a single group correct. Thinking that I was looking for a group of things you could hammer, I selected NAIL, PIN, TACK and SPIKE.
After getting one away I tried SNAP instead of spike and then, possessed by another ‘one away’, SPRING. Ah well, you can’t win them all. Or hammer them all.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, July 18 game #768)
- 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
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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