If today’s New York Times Connections grid has you burning through your mistakes, you are not alone. Puzzle #1123 features some heavy misdirection, with several words seemingly fitting into a medical or sports theme before pulling the rug out from under you.
Below are strategic, spoiler-free hints to help you group today’s words on your own, followed by the exact categories and answers at the bottom of the page.
Today’s Connections Strategy & Commentary
Watch out for the red herrings today. At first glance, words like Grate and Plane look like an obvious match for a tools theme, but committing to that group early will cost you lives. We recommend looking closely at the verbs first, separating the action words from the nouns will make the remaining 12 words significantly easier to manage.
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Connections Hints Today: Category Clues
If you just need a nudge to get your brain moving in the right direction, here are clues for the four color-coded groups:
- 🟨 Yellow Group Hint (Easiest): Words that relate to cutting something into thin pieces
- 🟩 Green Group Hint (Medium): These items all refer to a recurring or central idea in a work
- 🟦 Blue Group Hint (Hard): These are all ways to play a guitar
- 🟪 Purple Group Hint (Tricky): These words all follow the phrase House of
Stuck on one word? If you have Thread, try looking at it figuratively rather than by its literal definition. It might belong to the trickier Green group today!
NYT Connections Answers Today: Wednesday July 8, 2026
⚠️Spoiler Warning: Beyond this point lies the full solution for Puzzle #1123. If you still want to solve the grid yourself using the clues above, do not scroll down.
Here are the completed categories and groupings for today’s puzzle:
🟨 Yellow Group: Cut Into Thin Pieces
- Grate
- Plane
- Shave
- Sliver
🟩 Green Group: Motif
- Drift
- Plot
- Theme
- Thread
🟦 Blue Group: Guitar-Playing Techniques
- Pick
- Pluck
- Strum
- Tap
🟪 Purple Group: House Of _
- Cards
- Lords
- Wax
- Worship
Previous answer
NYT Connections Answer for July 7, 2026 (Puzzle #1122): Rooms In Clue / Student-Athlete Designations / _ Twist / Ending In “Sesame Street” Characters
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Did today’s puzzle give you a perfect “Reverse Rainbow” (solving Purple to Yellow), or did the red herrings wipe out your board?
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