Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Jul 1
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Need a hint for today’s Connections on Tuesday, 1st July? Lucky is the Connections player who doesn’t need these guides very often. For most word-puzzle enthusiasts, however, the Connections puzzles are a struggle more often than a breeze. Still, there’s plenty of fun to be had, especially if you’ve got some hints to help you out.
Of course, hints, tips, word reveals, and theme reveals are exactly what we offer here. Let’s achieve victory today!
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Tuesday 1st July
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Nick | Shave | Dress | |
| Tidy | Brush | Smart | Key |
| Touch | Shower | Palm | Sharp |
| Pinch | Mile | Neat | Birth |
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 Tuesday 1st July
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: When you take something that isn’t yours, how would you describe this?
- Green: Think of the things you might do before a date.
- Blue: Describe someone as “well-dressed”.
- Purple: Find one word to paste behind all four group members.
- Extra hint 1: Every group contains at least two words starting with the same letter – except purple.
- Extra hint 2: Every group except green contains at least one four-letter word.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Palm
- Green: Shower
- Blue: Neat
- Purple: Key
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: Steal
- Green: Do Some Grooming
- Blue: Dapper
- Purple: ___Stone
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 Tuesday, 1st July:
- Yellow: Steal (Nick, Palm, Pinch, Pocket)
- Green: Do Some Grooming (Brush, Dress, Shave, Shower)
- Blue: Dapper (Neat, Sharp, Smart, Tidy)
- Purple: ___Stone (Birth, Key, Mile, Touch)
Today’s puzzle was about 50% easy, and 50% difficult for me. Oddly enough, I count the yellow theme among the ‘difficult’ ones. Although I am familiar with the synonyms for stealing, ‘palm’ had me thinking of a tree, a hand, or a beer, and ‘nick’ sounds way too much like a person.
When I noticed ‘tidy’ and ‘neat’ though, I first thought of a clean house, then a clean person, and then a well-dressed person. Solved! I guess it was easier to think of ‘grooming’ as the green theme since it’s so closely related to the blue theme I just solved.
With only eight words left in the running, it wasn’t quite as hard to notice the ‘stealing’ theme. I never found the purple ‘stone’ theme, and I’m not sure if I would’ve – that one seems by far the most difficult today.
