Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Monday Jul 28
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Connections game play online
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Monday, 28th July? If you haven’t been able to solve this Connections puzzle yet, you’re probably not the only one – it’s a tough one today! But don’t give up on your victory streak just yet. Sometimes, just a small hint makes all the difference.
From small hints to the full Connections answer and everything in between, this guide will give you exactly what you need.
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Monday 28th July
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Trace | Initial | Sign | Original |
| Stamp | Buddy | Silent | Date |
| Record | Evidence | Primary | Coin |
| First | Comic | Cult | Hint |
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Monday 28th July
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: These words indicate an order.
- Green: Look for clues – literally.
- Blue: See any collector’s items?
- Purple: Look for movies.
- Extra hint 1: ‘Sign’ and ‘stamp’ are in different groups.
- Extra hint 2: The yellow theme is the only one to lack four-letter words.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Initial
- Green: Hint
- Blue: Stamp
- Purple: Buddy
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups?
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: Foremost
- Green: Indication
- Blue: Item In A Collection
- Purple: ___ Movie
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!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Monday, 28th July:
- Yellow: Foremost (First, Initial, Original, Primary)
- Green: Indication (Evidence, Hint, Sign, Trace)
- Blue: Item In A Collection (Coin, Comic, Record, Stamp)
- Purple: ___ Movie (Buddy, Cult, Date, Silent)
Despite the word ‘cult’ providing me with what seems like an obvious clue in hindsight, I didn’t catch on to the ‘movie types’ theme. Before I drew that sad conclusion, however, I was able to find today’s first theme; the yellow ‘starter’ group.
The green theme was doable too; ‘evidence’ and ‘hint’ formed a clear match in my mind, so I didn’t need a detective hat or a spyglass to complete the theme. With only eight words left in the running, it became easier to find the similarity between stamps, coins, and comics. Stamps and coins are probably the easiest words to associate with collections, while – at least for me- ‘record’ was the hardest.
All in all this wasn’t the hardest Connections puzzle in the past week, but definitely not too easy either. I wonder if many other players found the purple theme solution on their own. If you did, good job!
