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 Friday 5th 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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Connecting words on Friday July 5
For reference, here are today’s 16 Connections words:
| Yen | Bond | Angry | Current |
| Euro | O | Q | Fortune |
| Long | M | I | Pine |
| Chewing gum | Nature | Wish | Money penny |
Connections hint for July 5th
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): A desire or wish for something.
- Green (Easy): These words are all names of well-known publications.
- Blue (Medium): These words are all names of characters from a famous spy movie series.
- Purple (hardest): These words all come before the word for a light popping sound.
- Extra tip 1: Four of these individual letters belong to three different groups.
- Extra tip 2: Yen here does not refer to the currency.
Connection groups for July 5th
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:
- Desire
- Magazines
- Characters in Bond films
- Words that precede ‘Pop’ in music genres
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 (Friday, July 5)?
- Desire: Desire, Long, Pine, Yen
- Magazines: Fortune, Crazy, Nature, O
- Characters in Bond films: Bond, M, Moneypenny, Q
- Words that precede ‘Pop’ in music genres: Bubblegum, Euro, K, Power
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, and the Wordle hint and answer for Friday, July 5th. 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!