NYT Connections Today: July 17 Hints And Answers (#767)
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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, July 17 are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT's website or Games app.
You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
What Are Today's Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today's Connections groups, I'll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today's 16 words are...
And the hints for today's Connections groups are:
One Word For Each Connections Group
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Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let's take a look at one word for each group.
Today's Connections word hints are…
What Are Today's Connections Groups?
Today's Connections groups are...
What Are Today's Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Connections answers.
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Today's Connections answers are...
I was delighted to see a reference to Super Mario World, one of my top five games of all time on the top line. POKE and PAC could have been references to Pokémon and Pac-Man, respectively. The rappers/rap-group references caught my eye too -- WU-TANG (Clan), BIGGIE (Smalls), (Tu)PAC (Shakur) and SNOOP Dogg. But it became clear very quickly that those were a red herring of sorts.
HARD FEELINGS had to be preceded by "no," and I found three other words that fit the bill. That took care of the greens. Here, BIGGIE means "big deal." I figured that the spying words/phrase would be the yellows and that assumption proved to be correct.
At that point, the purples seemed abundantly clear to me. (DRUM AND) BASS, (CAMI)SOLE and (CAPE) COD all stood out as types of fish. I vaguely remembered that "tang" was a type of fish too, so that took care of the ostensibly most difficult group of the day.
That left the blues. Of course, Super MARIO WORLD was my key to figuring out that connection. A super PAC is a type of political committee that helps fund election campaign advertising.
That was a more straightforward game than I first suspected. A perfect game today extends my streak to 142 wins. Here's my grid for today:
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That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Friday's game if you need them.
P.S. It's gonna have to be a song by one of the artists referenced in today's grid for our recommendation. I'm going with "Gravel Pit" by Wu-Tang Clan. I've liked that song for a long time. It has such a catchy beat:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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