Today's puzzle is a fun one!
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for July 4 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,119. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,118, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Linger
- Spot
- Epic
- Dreams
- Zombie
- Ode
- Pea
- Scorpion
- Last
- Hurricane
- Nothings
- Stay
- Ballad
- Continue
- Painkiller
- Villanelle
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Keep going
- 🟩 Green: Rhymes
- 🟦 Blue: Yummy
- 🟪 Purple: Compliment
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Persist
- 🟩 Kinds Of Poems
- 🟦 Tropical Drinks
- 🟪 Sweet ___
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on July 4 for puzzle #1,119 are a shade easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Persist: Continue, Last, Linger, Stay
- 🟩 Kinds Of Poems: Ballad, Epic, Ode, Villanelle
- 🟦 Tropical Drinks: Hurricane, Painkiller, Scorpion, Zombie
- 🟪 Sweet ___: Dreams, Nothings, Pea, Spot
Today's puzzle almost stumped me, despite its relatively low difficulty rating. I managed to figure out persist and poems in a few moments, but then I hit a wall and wasted several guesses trying to figure out blue and purple.
After a little trial and error, I actually got the purple before the blue, connecting the things people say after "sweet" together.
Turns out, as a non-drinker, the blue clue, being all mixed drinks, left me unable to figure it out, but getting the purple clues allowed me to select the final four by process of elimination.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Dividing structures: Fence, gate, hedge, wall
- 🟩 Participate in some Winter Olympics: Curl, luge, skate, ski
- 🟦 Common recyclables: Bottle, box, can, newspaper
- 🟪 What "draft" might refer to: Breeze, on tap, recruit, sketch
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,117, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
I say cool beans way more than is comfortable for a person of any age. So I started there. Far out, groovy, and right on went right quick.
Hot drink and shirt got me to the Ts. Golf accessories and gossip were quick from there.
I had seen the happy feelings earlier, so I skipped them in favor of bad things in cold shoulder, dirty look, hard time, and runaround.
Which left bliss, felicity, happiness, and warm fuzzies.
