If today’s New York Times Connections grid has you burning through your mistakes, you are not alone. Puzzle #1134 features some heavy misdirection, with several words seemingly fitting into unrelated themes before revealing their true links.
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 Breaker and Fuse seem to fit together generally, but committing to those false groups early will cost you chances. We recommend sorting words by their part of speech first. Separating nouns like Breaker, Fuse, Relay and Switch from verbs like Connect, Join, Pair, Sync, Drain, Flush, Refill and Swirl will make the remaining options much easier to manage.
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): Devices used to control or stop the flow of electricity
- 🟩 Green Group Hint (Medium): Actions that involve linking or combining things together
- 🟦 Blue Group Hint (Hard): Actions that a toilet performs during use
- 🟪 Purple Group Hint (Tricky): Words that can all come before the word “face” to make a common phrase
Stuck on one word? If you are looking at Game, try thinking about how it works in phrases instead of its basic meaning. It might belong to the trickier Purple group today!
NYT Connections Answers Today: Sunday, July 19, 2026
⚠️ Spoiler Warning: Beyond this point lies the full solution for Puzzle #1134. 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: Circuit Components
- Breaker
- Fuse
- Relay
- Switch
🟩 Green Group: Digital Coupling Verbs
- Connect
- Join
- Pair
- Sync
🟦 Blue Group: Things Toilets Do
- Drain
- Flush
- Refill
- Swirl
🟪 Purple Group: _ Face Expressions
- Game
- Long
- Poker
- Straight
Previous Answer
NYT Connections Answer for July 18, 2026 (Puzzle #1133): Commit A Basketball Violation, Belief, Things Tracked In Video Games, Words After “Pop”
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Join the Discussion
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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