NYT Connections Today: Tuesday, July 29 Hints And Answers (#779)
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 Monday's:
Hey there, Connectors! I hope your week is off to a stellar start.
My partner and I are planning to be together for the long-term and so we've naturally broached the topic of marriage a few times. We have a general idea that if we do tie the knot, we'll probably have two small weddings: one in Montreal and one in Scotland. That'll make it much easier for all our family and friends we want to be there to attend. We're not in any rush, but we're at least thinking about it.
While we were talking on the phone the other night, I said I had to share something important. I'd been thinking about for a long time. It was a non-negotiable. I told her I needed to have a Lord of the Rings-themed wedding.
The response was about six seconds of silence, followed by an 'O…kaaaaay.' Then me laughing and telling her I was only kidding. Then her laughing.
I have absolutely nothing at all against anyone who wants to have a theme wedding, as long as everyone is on board. Do whatever makes you happy!
I do like The Lord of the Rings, but I'm very far from being a super fan or anything like that. I just knew that my partner does not care about that stuff at all.
I figured it would be a fun little prank. And I think it was.
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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, July 29 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
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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.
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Today's Connections answers are...
Aw man, I thought I was off to a quick start by grouping together FOLD, CHECK, DEAL and CALL. I figured RAISE would go with promotion. But no. I was caught in a trap, like the fool that I sometimes am. I was one away from a group, though, so I was onto something.
Then I realized that it was actually DEAL that would go with PROMOTION, as well as SPECIAL and SALE. That got me the yellows. RAISE then went with the rest of the blues. I thought those would be the greens.
After that, I suspected that BUG and NETTLE might go together in a group of things that sting. STEAM and FIST (as in a stinging blow) made sense, but I was one away from a group. I swapped out STEAM for IRON, but that was wrong. Not close to a group there.
After a long, long break to clear my mind and try to keep my streak intact, I came back to the puzzle with fresh eyes. I realized that BRAKES and IRON (as in lifting weights) are both things you can pump. FIST and GAS made sense with those and I had the purples.
NETTLE and STEAM aren't really words I'd think of as meaning "irritate," but BUG and RUFFLE hinted at that, so I did eventually figure out the green connection.
A close call this time around, but that's win number 153 in a row for yours truly. Here's my grid for today:
🟦🟨🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟪🟩🟩
🟩🟪🟪🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
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 Wednesday's game if you need them.
P.S. Given the purple category, I am very tempted to recommend Electric Callboy's "Pump It," which is genuinely one of the funniest songs I've ever heard. The video is a very amusing riff on all those '80s workout videos, so I'll go with a song from that era instead.
For your Tuesday listening pleasure here is "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper. I've no idea why it popped into my head right now, but it's a fantastic song nonetheless:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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