If today’s New York Times Connections grid has you burning through your mistakes, you are not alone. Puzzle #1119 features some clever misdirection, with several words seeming to fit unrelated themes before you spot the real 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 Last and Stay look like they belong to time limits while Hurricane and Scorpion could easily make you think of weather or animals. Committing to those wrong groups early will cost you lives. We recommend looking closely at what each word can pair with or what category they all fit into as a set rather than jumping on the first obvious connection you see.
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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 mean to continue or not give up
- 🟩 Green Group Hint (Medium): These are all different styles of writing poetry
- 🟦 Blue Group Hint (Hard): These are all mixed alcoholic drinks served at bars
- 🟪 Purple Group Hint (Tricky): These words all come right after the word Sweet to make a common phrase
Stuck on one word? If you have Pea or Spot try thinking of common sayings or phrases instead of literal meanings. They belong to the trickier Purple group today!
NYT Connections Answers Today: Saturday July 4, 2026
⚠️Spoiler Warning: Beyond this point lies the full solution for Puzzle #1119. 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: Persist
- Continue
- Last
- Linger
- Stay
🟩 Green Group: Kinds Of Poems
- Ballad
- Epic
- Ode
- Villanelle
🟦 Blue Group: Tropical Drinks
- Hurricane
- Painkiller
- Scorpion
- Zombie
🟪 Purple Group: Sweet _
- Dreams
- Nothings
- Pea
- Spot
Previous answer
NYT Connections Answer for July 3, 2026 (Puzzle #1118): Positive Feelings / Retro Expressions Of Approval / Bad Things To Give Someone / What Things Pronounced “T” Might Refer To
Join the Discussion
Did today’s puzzle give you a perfect Reverse Rainbow solving from Purple to Yellow, or did the red herrings wipe out your board?
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