{"slug": "today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-july-3-1118", "title": "Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 3, #1118", "summary": "The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 3, #1118, features categories including positive feelings, retro expressions of approval, bad things to give someone, and things pronounced 'T'. The answers are bliss, felicity, happiness, warm fuzzies; cool beans, far out, groovy, right on; cold shoulder, dirty look, hard time, runaround; and golf accessory, gossip, hot drink, shirt.", "body_md": "Looking for the **most recent** Connections answers? [Click here for today's Connections hints](https://www.cnet.com/feature/daily-puzzle-answers/), as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.\n\nToday's NYT [Connections puzzle](https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections) is a real challenge. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers.\n\n[The Times has a Connections Bot](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/connections-bot-brings-ai-to-the-new-york-times-games-section/), like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section [can now nerd out by following their progress](https://www.nytco.com/press/introducing-connections-stats-and-streaks/), including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.\n\n**Read more:** [Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/nyt-connections-seven-hints-tricks-and-tips-for-winning-every-game/)\n\n## Hints for today's Connections groups\n\nHere are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.\n\n**Yellow group hint**: Supportive emotions.\n\n**Green group hint**: Totally tubular would be another one.\n\n**Blue group hint**: Gifts no one wants.\n\n**Purple group hint**: Earl Grey, hot.\n\n## Answers for today's Connections groups\n\n**Yellow group**: Positive feelings.\n\n**Green group**: Retro expressions of approval.\n\n**Blue group**: Bad things to give someone.\n\n**Purple group**: What things pronounced \"T\" might refer to.\n\n**Read more:** [Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words](https://www.cnet.com/tech/wordle-player-cheat-sheet-here-are-the-most-popular-letters-used-in-the-english-language/)\n\n## What are today's Connections answers?\n\n### The yellow words in today's Connections\n\nThe theme is positive feelings. The four answers are bliss, felicity, happiness and warm fuzzies.\n\n### The green words in today's Connections\n\nThe theme is retro expressions of approval. The four answers are cool beans, far out, groovy and right on.\n\n### The blue words in today's Connections\n\nThe theme is bad things to give someone. The four answers are cold shoulder, dirty look, hard time and runaround.\n\n### The purple words in today's Connections\n\nThe theme is what things pronounced \"T\" might refer to. The four answers are golf accessory, gossip, hot drink and shirt.\n\n**Toughest Connections puzzles**\n\nWe've made a note of some of the [toughest Connections puzzles](https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/nyt-connections-turns-one-these-are-the-5-toughest-puzzles-so-far/#link=%7B%22role%22:%22standard%22,%22href%22:%22https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/nyt-connections-turns-one-these-are-the-5-toughest-puzzles-so-far/) so far. Maybe they'll help you see patterns in future puzzles.\n\n#5: Included \"things you can set,\" such as mood, record, table and volleyball.\n\n#4: Included \"one in a dozen,\" such as egg, juror, month and rose.\n\n#3: Included \"streets on screen,\" such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.\n\n#2: Included \"power ___\" such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.\n\n#1: Included \"things that can run,\" such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-july-3-1118", "canonical_source": "https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-july-3-1118/", "published_at": "2026-07-03 09:01:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-03 21:41:46.644097+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["New York Times", "Connections", "Wordle", "CNET"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-july-3-1118", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-july-3-1118.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-july-3-1118.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-july-3-1118.jsonld"}}