Welcome back, Connectioneers! If you’re looking for help with today’s puzzling NYT Connections puzzle, I’m here to offer my assistance with some extra clues and the solutions to the Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple groups.

Today’s Connections is a doozy. Genuinely the hardest I’ve encountered in a very long time. I almost failed but thankfully made that third group of connections with just one guess left.

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Today’s Connections is a 5/5 difficulty according to Connections Bot. Shall we?

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Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase

The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.

There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.

You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles.

NYT Connections Hints And Answers – Sunday, July 12

Below, we’ll get into some extra hints for each Connections group – Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple – and then the official clues and answers.

Here are today’s Connections words:

  • Here are today’s Connections words:
  • spree
  • study
  • den
  • sleep
  • nerd
  • mad
  • party
  • pit
  • sac
  • seed
  • dot
  • repeat
  • pho
  • stone
  • runt
  • pip

Here’s an Extra Hint for Each Connections Group

  • 🟡Yellow group – Inside peaches, for instance.
  • 🔵Blue group – Cramming for that test.
  • 🟢Green group – Sugary treat
  • 🟣Purple group – Cities

One Word for Each Connections Group:

  • 🟡Yellow group – stone
  • 🔵Blue group – sleep
  • 🟢Green group – nerd
  • 🟣Purple group – Mad

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

  • Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
  • 🟡Yellow group – Reproductive part of fruit
  • 🔵Blue group – Verbs in a college life slogan
  • 🟢Green group – Bit of fruit-flavored candy
  • 🟣Purple group – Starts of US captials

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

  • The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow . The Connections answers are:
  • 🟡Yellow group – pip, pit, seed, stone
  • 🔵Blue group – party, sleep, study, repeat
  • 🟢Green group – dot, nerd, runt, spree
  • 🟣Purple group – DENver, MADison, PHOenix, SACremento

Here’s the finished grid:

Today’s NYT Connections was a 5/5 on the Connections Bot difficulty scale and it was quite challenging. I managed to get the Blue words, which I think were the most obvious, before the Yellow words. I was pretty close on the Yellow group, with PIT, SEED and STONE but I just wasn’t sure about the fourth one (maybe because now I associate PIP with dice and dominos).

Once I was down to just 8 words, I was pretty flummoxed. Baffled. How did delicious Vietnamese PHO relate to NERD candies? I finally started finding other candies, ones I’m not as familiar with, and had DOT, NERD and RUNT lined up. I took a guess with SPREE and lucky for me, that was the connection. I input the remaining words and, of course, once I understood the connection between them it seemed obvious. So obvious!

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