Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Jul 24
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Connections game play online
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Thursday, 24th July? Connections puzzles are difficult enough already, but the NYT often throws in some distractions to mislead you. Use this detailed guide to save you from missteps and steer you towards today’s Connections solution.
Your next theme-guessing victory is no more than a few hints and sneak peeks away. Time to claim it!
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Thursday 24th July
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Steel | Pole | Giant | Split |
| Jet | Lute | Rim | Knick |
| Net | Titanic | Great | Bounce |
| Dip | Backboard | Rabe | Mammoth |
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 Thursday 24th July
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: These words are very big.
- Green: When you don’t like the party and decide to go home, what might you call it?
- Blue: Needed to score in a very popular ball sport.
- Purple: Look for homophones.
- Extra hint 1: The three-letter words are either in the green or blue group.
- Extra hint 2: ‘Steel’ and ‘pole’ are in different groups.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Titanic
- Green: Dip
- Blue: Backboard
- Purple: Lute
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: Colossal
- Green: Leave Quickly
- Blue: Parts Of A Basketball Hoop
- Purple: Homophones Of Synonyms For “Nab”
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 Thursday, 24th July:
- Yellow: Colossal (Giant, Great, Mammoth, Titanic)
- Green: Leave Quickly (Bounce, Dip, Jet, Split)
- Blue: Parts Of A Basketball Hoop (Backboard, Net, Pole, Rim)
- Purple: Homophones Of Synonyms For “Nab” (Knick, Lute, Rabe, Steel)
The first Connections link I spotted today were mammoth and giant. Since my search for more massive creatures proved fruitless, I realised that ‘words for something big’ was enough to solve today’s yellow theme. This definitely wasn’t the hardest Connections theme we’ve ever had to solve, right?
The same is certainly not true for the remaining themes. I found the connection between dip & bounce fairly quickly, but it took a while to add the rest. The blue theme was even harder, as I’m no basketball expert at all, and the connection just didn’t click for me.
Surprisingly, the purple theme proved easier, but that’s probably because I actively searched for homophones (following an attempt to discover hidden words). As homophones are very difficult to notice, I recommend taking a minute to search for them whenever you’re stuck on a Connections puzzle.
