Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Jul 29
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Connections game play online
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Tuesday, 29th July? If you tend to solve your daily Connections puzzles without any help, that’s impressive. That said, it’s not unusual at all to need sporadic or even regular guidance, as these theme-guessing challenges are tough.
Guidance is exactly what’s on offer here. Read on, look at the list of hints, click a word-spoiler if you need it, and you will surely tackle today’s puzzle.
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Tuesday 29th July
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Special | Bug | Raise | Fist |
| Steam | Promotion | Iron | Fold |
| Deal | Check | Gas | Ruffle |
| Call | Brakes | Nettle | Sale |
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 29th July
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: This theme is all about saving money.
- Green: Describe feelings of annoyance.
- Blue: As seen in a very popular card game, often involving gambling.
- Purple: These words are connected by a single verb that applies to all of them.
- Extra hint 1: The purple theme is the only one without a word ending with an ‘E’.
- Extra hint 2: There’s nothing but four- and five-letter words in the blue theme.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Deal
- Green: Nettle
- Blue: Call
- Purple: Iron
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: Discount
- Green: Irritate
- Blue: Poker Actions
- Purple: Things You Can Pump
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, 29th July:
- Yellow: Discount (Deal, Promotion, Sale, Special)
- Green: Irritate (Bug, Nettle, Ruffle, Steam)
- Blue: Poker Actions (Call, Check, Fold, Raise)
- Purple: Things You Can Pump (Brakes, Fist, Gas, Iron)
My first potential Connections match, ‘gas’ and ‘steam’, went nowhere this time. I had more luck with the second one, ‘deal’ and ‘promotion’. After completing the rest of the yellow theme, it took me a long time before I finally caught on to the poker theme.
Oddly enough, although I do know the poker terms (despite not being a player – it’s almost general knowledge, isn’t it?) it just didn’t click. Only when I finally realized that the word ‘folding’ is also used in card games, did I start to see a connection.
The green theme in today’s Connections challenge was somewhat similar in difficulty. Not impossible to solve, but I was thinking of insects and vaporized water before thinking of irritation and succesfully linking ‘bug’ and ‘steam’.
