Would you like a tip for Connections today? Riding on the monumental success of the daily puzzle game Wordle, the New York Times has now released another fantastically popular word game. It’s called Connections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start.
In this guide, we’ll give you a handy hint selection for today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday 16th July, before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if this is your first time coming from Wordle!
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Connective words on Tuesday July 16
For reference, here are today’s 16 Connections words:
| Pan | Pilot | Short | Rabbit |
| Crotch | Park | Kinky | Process |
| Piper | Violinist | Irritable | Exploratory |
| Cheerful | Nors | Premature | Jersey |
Connections hint for July 16
Here’s a hint for every word group in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a few more clues to help you figure out the answer:
- Yellow (easiest): Words for angry.
- Green (Easy): Trying something out before you make a decision about it.
- Blue (Medium): These words all have something in common with Broadway.
- Purple (hardest): These words all occur before a boy’s name that begins with ‘P’.
- Extra tip 1: Piper and Fiddler belong to two different groups.
- Extra tip 2: Short here does not refer to length.
Connection Groups for July 16
If you need an even bigger clue to solve today’s connection puzzle, we’ve revealed the four correct connection groups below. These are the themes that connect each set of four words in the connection grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Bad mood
- Experimental
- Beginning of Broadway musicals
- Peter ___
Now that you know the themes for the different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, see below for the full answer.
Spoiler alert! Today’s answer to Connections is coming soon!
What is the response to Connections today (Tuesday, July 16)?
- Bad mood: Cross, Short, Grumpy, Grumpy
- Experimental: Exploratory, trial, preliminary, trial
- Beginnings of Broadway musicals: Violinist, Jersey, Kinky, Cheerful
- Peter ___: Pan, Parker, Piper, Rabbit
Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t get it right today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!
What are connections?
Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by the NYT, hosts of the endlessly popular Wordle puzzle. Created daily by crossword puzzle creator Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, which you must group into four sets of four, with each group of four words sharing a common theme.
For example, 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 that often appear just before the word “Figure”.
Your task is to figure out what these themes are that connect the different words – but be careful, because there are often red herring connections that are deliberately put in there to throw you off! To win the game, you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is automatically revealed.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different color, indicating how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colors are: Yellow (easiest), Green (easiest), Blue (medium), and Purple (hardest).
That wraps up today’s guide on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for help with Wordle, we also have our list of previous Wordle answers for you, as well as the Wordle hint and answer for Tuesday, July 16th. You can also check out our list of the best opening words for Wordle, or use our Wordle Solver tool to help you find the answer easily!