Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Saturday Jul 26
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Connections game play online
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Saturday, 26th July? Another day, another Connections puzzle to test our theme-finding capabilities. Perhaps you’re in luck, and today’s themes are right up your alley. Or, since you’re here, perhaps today isn’t your lucky day, and you need a bit of guidance.
Whether you’re at your wits’ end or simply in a hurry, this guide will point you to the puzzle solution.
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Saturday 26th July
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Luxe | Trek | Bottle | Wars |
| Cope | Anise | Sara | Kelly |
| Sage | March | Hunter | Mace |
| Hike | Pea | Dill | Tramp |
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 Saturday 26th July
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Use them to add flavour to a dish.
- Green: Same colour as Kermit, different shade.
- Blue: If you go somewhere without a bike, car, boat, or plane, what’s it called?
- Purple: ‘Unfinished’ capitals.
- Extra hint 1: The purple group uses four-letter words only.
- Extra hint 2: Sara and Kelly aren’t about people, and neither are they in the same group.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Anise
- Green: Kelly
- Blue: March
- Purple: Wars
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: Herbs And Spices
- Green: Shades Of Green
- Blue: Travel On Foot
- Purple: Starts Of European Capitals
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 Saturday, 26th July:
- Yellow: Herbs And Spices (Anise, Dill, Mace, Sage)
- Green: Shades Of Green (Bottle, Hunter, Kelly, Pea)
- Blue: Travel On Foot (March, Hike, Tramp, Trek)
- Purple: Starts Of European Capitals (Cope, Luxe, Sara, Wars)
I’ve got to admit, it took me a while to notice the walking theme. It seems obvious in hindsight, but I was thinking of the month March and the ‘vagrant’ interpretation of ‘tramp’ at first.
That said, the blue theme didn’t take nearly as long as the purple and green ones. The purple one I simply didn’t recognise as European capitals, and the green one contains terms I’m unfamiliar with. I’d like to stick with ‘light green’ and ‘dark green’ please, and thank you. I might say ‘lime green’ or ‘olive green’ if I want to be more specific, but not ‘Kelly green’.
This definitely wasn’t the easiest Connections of late, but I did learn more about shades of green today, so that’s still a win!
