NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Monday, July 7: 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 Sunday's:
Hey there, Connectors! Welcome to the start of a new week. I'm delighted to be back with you for another weekday run of this column.
As you may know by now, I like to kick off the column with an upbeat song to hopefully help you shake off the cobwebs and start the week in an excellent mood. This is in addition to the daily recommendation I include at the end of each column.
I'm in a Motown vibe today. In particular, I think an all-time classic is a good way to go. Wouldn't you agree? So, please enjoy "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes: Before we begin, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It's a fun hangout spot, and you're more than welcome to hang out with us.
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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, July 7 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...
I didn't have too much trouble with this one. LEAK, RAT and SOURCE obviously went together. It took me a while to find the fourth word, though. While CANARY made the most sense by process of elimination, I hadn't heard it used in this context before. Still, I got the yellows after taking a chance.
SECRET and HAT were then my way into the purples. Top BANANA is a reference to a boss or the most important or powerful person in a given sphere.
I thought the blues were all football (I refuse to call it soccer if I can help it) terms, but that works. I haven't watched a second of the FIFA Club World Cup, for what it's worth. At least Euro 2025 has been entertaining so far.
That left the greens for a fairly straightforward victory. That's a perfect game for win 132 in a row. Here's my grid for today:
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🟦🟦🟦🟦
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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 Tuesday's game if you need them.
P.S. Here's another classic Motown release. I'll bet, like, $5 that you know this one (this offer applies only to you – I can't make that bet with every reader!):
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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