NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Wednesday, July 30: Today's Clues And Answers
Each day's game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today's Connections hints and answers, here are Tuesday's:
It's Wednesday, and you know what that means: it's time for another game of Connections!
It's nice to be back in Montreal after a few weeks visiting family back in Scotland. I'm settling back in quite smoothly, but – as I often do after travelling between several time zones – I have a weird sense of displacement I haven't quite been able to shake just yet. It's not really jet lag, I don't think. More a feeling that I'm a little dislodged in time. It's fine, though. That sensation will pass.
I don't think anything will quite beat the feeling I had when flying to California on October 21, 2015. I was literally time traveling on the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown land in during Back to the Future Part II. Now, that one was trippy.
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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, July 30 are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT's website or Games app.
You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
What Are Today's Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today's Connections groups, I'll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today's 16 words are...
And the hints for today's Connections groups are:
One Word For Each Connections Group
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let's take a look at one word for each group.
Today's Connections word hints are…
What Are Today's Connections Groups?
Today's Connections groups are...
What Are Today's Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today's Connections answers are...
Yeah, I had absolutely no idea what TETRACYCLINE was either. Its presence screamed that there was some wordplay going on, likely making it a purple. The word ends in "line" while TRIANGLE ends in "angle," so I assumed there must be something going on there. I couldn't quite figure out what it was, so I left those alone for a bit.
The yellows were straight forward enough despite the potential pitfall of MONORAIL, COACH and TRAIN.
After that, I looked at BULGE and GROAN as words that mean "to expand." ABUT made sense with that. The only other word I could think of that might work was VOILA. I submitted those and had the purples... but I was completely wrong about what linked them lmao. They actually refer to tuba (ABUT), bugle (BULGE), organ (GROAN) and viola (VOILA).
After that, I was able to make sense of the greens easily enough. As it turns out, I was right about TETRACYCLINE and TRIANGLE involving wordplay, but entirely wrong about what linked them. I would have had absolutely no chance at these, since I don't know much about the Greek language. But hey, I still lucked into a perfect game, so I'm happy.
Today's win extends my overall streak to 154 wins. Here's my grid:
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That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday's game if you need them.
P.S. I was quite saddened by the passing of Ozzy Osbourne last week. He is a true rock 'n' roll legend. It was well-known that he wasn't in great health, but for him to pass so soon after his farewell concert was still a shock.
This is probably my favorite song of Ozzy's, either in his solo career or with Black Sabbath:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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