NYT Connections hints and answers (Wed, Jul 17)

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This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint and answer for Thursday, July 18th!

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 Wednesday 17th 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 Wednesday July 17

For reference, here are today’s 16 Connections words:

Business suit Shopping cart Account To hinder
Bank To wash School Laundry service
wait Pride To curb Nothing
Post office To ban Supermarket Swarm

Connection tip for July 17

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): All important amenities of your place of residence.
  • Green (Easy): Words used to describe how someone’s progress is being held back.
  • Blue (Medium): Use these words if you want to describe multiple animals.
  • Purple (hardest): Think of the first names of American heads of state.
  • Extra tip 1: By ‘checking’ we do not mean ‘overlooking’.
  • Extra tip 2: “Cart” and “Nix” belong to the same group.

Connection Groups for July 17

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:

  • Buildings in the city
  • Obstruction
  • Names of animal groups
  • Beginning of American Presidents

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!

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What is the response to Connections today (Wednesday, July 17)?

  • Buildings in the city: Bank, laundromat, post office, supermarket
  • Obstruction: Control, restrain, hinder, brake
  • Names of animal groups: Pack, Pride, School, Swarm
  • Beginning of American Presidents: Pray, Cart, Nothing, Wash

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 Thursday, July 18th. 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!

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