Connections are a New York Times Puzzle Game Players must find “connections” between different words and sort them into groups of four. To help you out, we’ve decided to break down all the categories and answers for the July 17 Connections puzzle.
What is “Connections”?
The NYT ‘Connections’ is a puzzle game that’s been all the rage on social media lately. You’ll find people solving and sharing their successes and failures on platforms like X (formerly Twitter), and many others. The game is run by Wyna Liu, the NYT’s deputy puzzle editor. Connections gives players 16 random words that must be divided into categories they don’t know.
What are today’s connection clues?
Let’s start with some quick tips on today’s Connections themes. Check them out and see if you can guess one.
- Yellow Category – You see them in town
- Green category – Some things just create difficulties
- Blue Category – Animals can also be in groups
- Purple Category – Can you spot all these leaders?
We wish we could go into detail here, but these tips are the best we can share. However, if you still can’t find them, keep reading for additional help with today’s connections.
Categories for today’s connections puzzle
Need help solving today’s NYT Connections puzzle? Here are today’s categories:
- YELLOW – BUILDINGS AROUND THE CITY
- Green – HINDER
- Blue – NAMES OF ANIMAL GROUPS
- Purple – DEBUT OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
While you’re here, you should also check out the tips and answers from today’s NYT Strands as well as today’s Wordle.
We hope that you are now able to guess the words in each category. However, if you still can’t do it and need help, keep reading.
Answers for today’s Connections game (July 17)
Still stuck on the connections riddle? In that case, the answers to today’s connections are:
- BUILDINGS AROUND THE CITY – Bank, Laundromat, Post office, Supermarket
- TO HINDER – Check, brake, hinder, inhibit
- NAMES OF ANIMAL GROUPS – Pack, pride, school, swarm
- DEBUT OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS – Bide, Cart, Nix, Wash
The NYT Connections of July 17th loved to tackle American presidents and generic buildings. I started with the latter when solving the Yellow category. However, I haven’t seen a post office in a while now.
The green category came next and apart from the word Check which I didn’t know meant to get in the way, I had all those words too. The blue category itself was much easier than the last one since we all learned that in school.
Once all that was done, there were only four words left. I put them all together to get the Purple category and the NYT Connections puzzle for July 17.
Response to yesterday’s connections
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How was your experience with Connections today? Where did you run into difficulties if any? Let us know in the comments below.