Looking for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers for July 15, 6 for puzzle #401 are a bit more difficult than yesterday’s answers, with the Connection companion rate the difficulty of this puzzle 2.6 out of 5.
Every day, we update this post with connection tips and tricks to help you find today’s 4 answers. And if the clues aren’t enough, you’ll find all 4 answers below, along with category titles and corresponding words. Plus, we’re including a reflection on yesterday’s riddle, #400, in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers await you in Connections #401. Continue reading only if you want to know the answers to today’s Connections.
You can also check out our guide on how to play NYT Connections for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
Today’s Connections Answer — Hints to Help You Solve It
Unlike our Wordle answer guide today, where we recommend the best Wordle starter words as a strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. The difficulty level of each category is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping and purple is the hardest. Once you make 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so the hints can be helpful.
If you need hints to solve the groupings, here are the themes for each, in order of difficulty:
- 🟨 YELLOW: In a bad mood
- 🟩 Green: Experimental
- 🟦 Blue:Broadway musicals begin
- 🟪 Purple: Rock _____
These clues should help you find at least part of the answers to today’s questions about connections. If not, you can continue reading for more detailed clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, scroll down the page.
Here’s a broader clue: Don’t start today’s puzzle in a bad mood, get into a singing mood and consider all the forms a Peter can take, even if it may be too speculative.
Today’s Connections Answers
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #401?
Drum roll please…
- 🟨 In a bad mood: Crossed, small, sullen, irritable
- 🟩 Experimental: Exploratory, pilot, preliminary, test
- 🟦 Broadway Musical Debuts: Fiddler, jersey, pervert, cheerfully
- 🟪 Rock _____: Pan, Parker, Piper, Rabbit
We had a winning streak in the purple category here first, and that should have continued today.
I actually had Pan, Parker, and Rabbit, and for some reason I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that Piper was a Peter. Especially since I’ve spent many a birthday party at San Antonio’s version of Chuck E. Cheese: Peter Piper Pizza. Apparently there are tons of them in Arizona, but my memory of that place is strictly from Texas. I ended up getting Purple last, despite that beginning.
So yellow was actually my first category completed as I saw Short and Surly close together. Testy and Cross were easy finds from there.
The grid fell so that the pilot, the preliminary and the test were close to each other. It was just a matter of looking for the connection with the exploration from there.
To be honest, Broadway musicals aren’t my thing and I’m not sure I would have ever gotten this category if I hadn’t already pretty much locked down the purple category. I mostly picked this one because it didn’t fit in with 3 Peter’s, even though it took a strike to get there.
Not my best day, hope you had a cleaner day than mine!
Answers to yesterday’s connections
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are Connections’ answers for game #400, which had a difficulty rating of 2.4 out of 5, according to the Connection companion.
For the second day in a row, I guessed the purple category correctly on the first try, so I feel like a genius right now. If the liter and pint were enough of a clue that these were liquids, Fifth made the connection that these are the kind of drinks you drink and everyone knows your name.
Next came yellow, which could have been a lot trickier if the Connections team had added a few red herrings. Believe and Trust are similar enough to get you on the right track, and Accept and Buy are the only other clues that are even vaguely synonymous.
I admit I had a hard time solving the blue category. I managed to connect the stand, holder and foot, but for some reason the base didn’t work for me until the second or third try.
The Bluff and Show clues reminded me of poker, which is probably why the green category was the last one solved today.