Ready to get that brain up and running for the day? Hopefully that’s a yes, because it’s Connections time!
I get the vibe there were a few “no’s” out there, though. And that’s okay! Here, we’ve got handy hints and answers to make the process easier for you.
Click here to play today’s NYT Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Saturday 4th July
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- 🟨 Yellow hint: Just keep swimming.
- 🟩 Green hint: Verse varieties.
- 🟦 Blue hint: The taste of vacation.
- 🟪 Purple hint: One adjective, four familiar phrases.
- Extra hint 1: One group belongs in a bar, another between the pages of a book.
- Extra hint 2: Every group except purple has at least one word containing the letter ‘C’
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- 🟨 Yellow: Linger
- 🟩 Green: Epic
- 🟦 Blue: Painkiller
- 🟪 Purple: Pea
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
Today’s Connections groups revealed
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- 🟨 Yellow: Persist
- 🟩 Green: Kinds of Poems
- 🟦 Blue: Tropical Drinks
- 🟪 Purple: Sweet ___
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
Connections answer today
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Saturday, 4th July:
- 🟨 Yellow: Persist (Continue, Last, Linger, Stay)
- 🟩 Green: Kinds of Poems (Ballad, Epic, Ode, Villanelle)
- 🟦 Blue: Tropical Drinks (Hurricane, Painkiller, Scorpion, Zombie)
- 🟪 Purple: Sweet ___ (Dreams, Nothings, Pea, Spot)
Finally! They said my Bachelor of Arts wouldn’t ammount to anything, but it was able to help me breeze through the green group, so who’s laughing now! Don’t ask me whether that was worth my $30,000 student loan, though, please.
Apart from the green group, my drinking experience led me to solve the blue group next. Then came the yellow group, then the purple thanks to the process of elimination! Overall, it was a well balanced puzzle and I didn’t end up as frustrated as I usually do. Score!
Let us know in the comments below how you found today’s puzzle! Here’s my grid:
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Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!