NYT Connections today hints and answers — Friday, February 7 (#607)

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Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on February 7 for puzzle #607 take a super leap in difficulty compared to yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 4 out of 5.

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.

Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #606, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #607. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.

Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.

Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #607 on February 7.

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Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, 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.

Today's Connections words are: Blue, Velvet, Run, Tire, Lead, Balloon, Eraser, Head, Bull, Lamp, Gross, Wishes, Direct, Galosh, Earring, and Herring.

If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:

  • 🟨 Yellow: Delicate
  • 🟩 Green: Magnanimous
  • 🟦 Blue: Things with necks
  • 🟪 Purple: First names in jazz

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.

Here's a larger hint: Lead the rubber road to Aladdin and a bit of cake.

Today's Connections answers

So, what are today's Connections answers for game #607?

Drumroll, please...

  • 🟨 Be in charge of: Direct, head, lead, run
  • 🟩 Things made of rubber: Balloon, eraser, galosh, tire
  • 🟦 Associated with the Genie in "Aladdin": Blue, earring, lamp, wishes
  • 🟪 Red ____: Bull, cross, herring, velvet

This puzzle was rated as pretty hard in the 4s. But it felt more like a lower three to me. Though I suppose if you didn't know about Aladdin, it might make it harder.

I had some ideas but wasn't sure until I knocked out the yellow group of direct, head, lead and run for "be in charge."

Sometimes removing one group helps open up the others. Aladdin clicked for me after that with lamp and wishes. Earring and blue followed from there.

I saw balloon, eraser, galosh and tire and immediately thought rubber. I assumed this was the green category so I left it for last.

Which got me to Red Bull, Red Cross, Red Herring, and Red Velvet and the purple group.

Yesterday's Connections answers

  • 🟨 Delicate: Faint, light, mild, soft
  • 🟩 Magnanimous: Grand, great, lofty, noble
  • 🟦 Things with necks: Bottle, giraffe, guitar, lamp
  • 🟪 First names in jazz: Cab, Count, Dizzy, Duke

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #606, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.

I try to find the purples first in every puzzle but often tend to only really do it on the ones rated 2. Today's 2.5 jumped out to me because I saw Duke and Cab and immediately thought Jazz. Took a second from there to find Dizzy and Count. Here are their full names if you weren't familiar: Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington.

I saw bottle and guitar and was thinking of the curvy shape. Lamp stuck out from there. Spent a minute looking at the other words before settling on giraffe to make my idea work. Still got it, but was not thinking of necks.

Grand, great, lofty and noble stuck out to me from there for the green category.

Which left yellow as our delicate rote fill with faint, light, mild, and soft.

Scott Younker
West Coast Reporter

Scott Younker is the West Coast Reporter at Tom’s Guide. He covers all the lastest tech news. He’s been involved in tech since 2011 at various outlets and is on an ongoing hunt to build the easiest to use home media system. When not writing about the latest devices, you are more than welcome to discuss board games or disc golf with him. 

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