Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Jul 22
Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #771.
Connections game play online
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Tuesday, 22nd July? No matter how many you solve, Connections challenges never become easy. Whenever you’re at a loss, it does help to search for synonyms, parts of an object, homophones, entertainment titles, people, and similarly common types of Connections themes, but it’s definitely no fix-all.
For additional guidance, use this handy Connections guide. We’ll reveal the puzzle solution at the end, but before that, you may want to grab some hints and try again.
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Tuesday 22nd July
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Chess | Cheek | Whoopie | Cushion |
| Temper | Checkers | Humble | Attitude |
| Lip | Soften | Honeycomb | Cutie |
| Dampen | Camo | Mouth | Stripes |
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 22nd July
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Think of someone bold and spirited, perhaps a bit rude.
- Green: Other ways to say ‘lessen’.
- Blue: As seen on clothes, furniture, and more.
- Purple: Add something edible at the end.
- Extra hint 1: Every theme contains either one or two words starting with a ‘C’.
- Extra hint 2: Checkers and chess 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: Mouth
- Green: Dampen
- Blue: Honeycomb
- Purple: Chess
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: Sassiness
- Green: Mitigate
- Blue: Patterns
- Purple: ___ Pie
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, 22nd July:
- Yellow: Sassiness (Attitude, Cheek, Lip, Mouth)
- Green: Mitigate (Cushion, Dampen, Soften, Temper)
- Blue: Patterns (Camo, Checkers, Honeycomb, Stripes)
- Purple: ___ Pie (Chess, Cutie, Humble, Whoopie)
I don’t think I could’ve solved today’s blue theme with sixteen words still present. Don’t get me wrong, I do like the ‘patterns’ theme, but even if I had interpreted ‘checkers’ and ‘honeycomb’ as a pattern early on, I’d probably dismiss it as too vague a connection.
Good thing I was able to remove the green words relatively quickly. ‘Dampen’ and ‘soften’ even sound alike, so it wasn’t hard for me to notice their link. I had more trouble with yellow, but the connection between ‘cheek’ and ‘attitude’ ultimately helped me solve it.
Only in hindsight did I notice the connection between lip, mouth, and cheek – that was probably meant to throw me off, but I was to dense to notice it before focusing on ‘attitude’. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of you got a bit confused by this fake ‘parts of the face’ theme.
