Tips, Answers, and Help from NYT Connections July 6, No. 391

Need answers to the New York Times’ Connections puzzle? To me, Wordle is more of a vocabulary test, but Connections is more of a puzzle. You’re given 16 words and asked to sort them into four groups that are somehow related. Sometimes they’re obvious, but game editor Wyna Liu knows how to trick you by using words that can fit into multiple groups.

And you, do you also play Wordle? We also have the answer and clues for today’s Wordle.

We also have today’s answer and some general tips for Strands, a new game from The Times that just came out of beta and arrived in the NYT Games app.

Learn more: NYT Connections Could Become the New Wordle: Our Tips and Tricks

Tips for Today’s Connections Groups

Here are four clues for today’s Connections puzzle groupings, listed from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.

Yellow group index: Think back to science class.

Green group index: Goo-goo, gaa-gaa.

Blue group index: Homemade musical items.

Purple group index: It’s you !

Answers for today’s connection groups

Yellow group: Biological building blocks.

Green group: Shopping for a baby.

Blue group: Objects played as instruments.

Purple group: ____ label.

Learn more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Used Letters in English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

Yellow words in today’s connections

The theme is biological building blocks. The four answers are atom, cell, molecule, and protein.

Green Words in Today’s Connections

The theme is baby shopping. The four answers are bottle, crib, mobile and rattle.

Blue Words in Today’s Connections

The theme is objects used as instruments. The four answers are a jug, a saw, spoons and a washboard.

Purple Words in Today’s Connections

The theme is ____ tag. The four answers are dog, gel, phone and price.

How to play Connections

Playing is easy. Winning is hard. Look at the 16 words and mentally assign them to groups of four related words. Click on the four words that you think go together. The groups are color-coded, but you don’t know what goes where until you see the answers. The yellow group is the easiest, then green, then blue, and purple is the hardest. Look closely at the words and think about related terms. Sometimes the connection is only part of the word. Once, four words were grouped together because each began with the name of a rock band, including “Rushmore” and “Journeyman.”