Today's puzzle is all about like-minded play that pops.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for July 19 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,134. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,133, 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
- Switch
- Swirl
- Long
- Game
- Poker
- Pair
- Flush
- Straight
- Relay
- Sync
- Drain
- Fuse
- Connect
- Breaker
- Refill
- Join
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Electrical work
- 🟩 Green: Seeing double
- 🟦 Blue: Commode
- 🟪 Purple: Why so serious
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:
- 🟨 Yellow: Circuit components
- 🟩 Green: Digital coupling verbs
- 🟦 Blue: Things toilets do
- 🟪 Purple: ___ face expressions
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 19 for puzzle #1,134 are a lot harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Circuit components: Breaker, fuse, relay, switch
- 🟩 Digital coupling verbs: Connect, join, pair, sync
- 🟦 Things toilets do: Drain, flush, refill, swirl
- 🟪 ___ face expressions: Game, long, poker, straight
I went down the line today, starting with what I remembered from high school shop class with breaker, fuse, relay, and switch for yellow.
After that, I spotted a quartet of synonyms in connect, join, pair, and sync for green.
I thought the names for poker hands were too obvious from the start, and with only flush and straight left of the bunch, I figured flush had to be the more literal definition. From there, it was easy enough to spot drain, refill, and swirl for blue.
That left purple as today's rote fill with game, long, poker, and straight.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Commit a basketball violation: Carry, double dribble, goaltend, travel
- 🟩 Belief: Attitude, mind, opinion, view
- 🟦 Things tracked in video games: Health, lives, score, time
- 🟪 Words after 'pop': Culture, fly, quiz, tart
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,13, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
I'm honestly surprised I got today's yellow category off the bat, because I'm not a big sports ball person. But I've played enough NBA 2K to recognize carry, double dribble, and travel, and while I didn't know what goaltend was, with the word 'goal' in it, I figured it had to go along with the rest.
From there I spotted a quartet of like-minded synonyms for green: attitude, mind, opinion, and view.
I'm a huge gamer, so it was easy enough to spot the link between health, lives, and score. It took me a second to realize I could throw time in there too to solve blue.
That left purple as today's rote fill with culture, fly, quiz, and tart.
