Today's puzzle wants you to spread the T.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for July 3 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,118. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,117, 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
- Hot Drink
- Runaround
- Felicity
- Shirt
- Warm Fuzzies
- Gossip
- Cool Beans
- Dirty Look
- Cold Shoulder
- Happiness
- Right On
- Hard Time
- Far Out
- Golf Accessory
- Bliss
- Groovy
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Well
- 🟩 Green: Nice
- 🟦 Blue: Mean
- 🟪 Purple: Cross
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:
- 🟨 Positive feelings
- 🟩 Retro expressions of approval
- 🟦 Bad things to give someone
- 🟪 What things pronounced "T" might refer to
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 3 for puzzle #1,117 are a shade easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Positive feelings: Bliss, felicity, happiness, warm fuzzies
- 🟩 Retro expressions of approval: Cool beans, far out, groovy, right on
- 🟦 Bad things to give someone: Cold shoulder, dirty look, hard time, runaround
- 🟪 What things pronounced "T" might refer to: Golf accessory, gossip, hot drink, shirt
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 accessory 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.
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 2.3 out of 5.
I almost had the reverse rainbow today, save for one pesky green set. Ah well.
I've been using spectacles for a minute as a cute way to thesaurus my way around saying smart glasses over and over. That's where my focus went to start today. Looking glass was right above, and a recent Count of Monte Cristo put me in mind of older times. Water closet soon followed; it took a minute for talkie, but we got there.
Track record and field mouse is how I got the venues set. Court jester followed, and I actually used the ring portion of diamond ring despite the clear pattern. However, you arrive, I suppose.
Now the nicknames stuck out with dan dan noodles, tom-tom, and billy goat before I landed on rich text.
And that left the impersonators in mime, copycat, mockingbird, and T-1000.
