Today's puzzle asks you to grab an umbrella for your newborn Game Boy case.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for July 26 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,141. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,140, 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
- Solid food
- Pastry crust
- Rolling over
- Liquid sunshine
- Plasma tv
- Scotch mist
- Blackberry
- Gas station
- Rowing boat
- First words
- April showers
- Discman
- Wet weather
- Carapace
- DVD player
- crawling
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Parental pride
- 🟩 Green: Ancient devices
- 🟦 Blue: Spitting outside
- 🟪 Purple: A different kind of husk
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: Baby milestones
- 🟩 Green: Outmoded consumer tech
- 🟦 Blue: Expressions for rain
- 🟪 Purple: What 'shell' 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 26 for puzzle #1,141 are a lot easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1 out of 5.
- 🟨 Baby milestones: Crawling, first words, rolling over, solid, food
- 🟩 Outmoded consumer tech: Blackberry, discman, dvd player, plasma TV
- 🟦 Expressions for rain: April showers, liquid sunshine, scotch mist, wet weather
- 🟪 What 'shell' might refer to: Carapace, gas station, pastry crust, rowing boat
Today's puzzle definitely felt easier than yesterday's. Solid food only brings one thing to mind, and once I saw crawling and first words, I knew I was on the right track. I threw in rolling over to finish out yellow.
I wasn't sure what scotch mist was, but it sounded rainy enough to chance lumping it in with liquid sunshine, wet weather, and april showers to solve blue.
After that came a bunch of tech that I still remember fondly: discman, dvd player, and plasma TV. I was searching for the fourth for a bit before I realized blackberry belonged with the bunch.
That left purple as today's rote fill with carapace, gas station, pastry crust, and rowing boat.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Spanish relatives: Abuela, hijo, madre, primo
- 🟩 Start to cry, with "up": Choke, mist, tear, well
- 🟦 African currencies: Kwanza, leone, naira, rand
- 🟪 Strip ____: Club, mall, poker, steak
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,140, which had a difficulty rating of 2.7 out of 5.
I've been teaching myself Spanish with the bird app, so I locked in on the familia pretty quickly. So we have Abuela, hijo, madre and primo. If you have suggestions for a learning app or program that you find works, let me know; I'm open.
I wasn't thinking currencies when I started putting rand, leone, kwanza and rand together, but I was thinking of Africa, so it worked out.
The strips finally clicked here with strip mall, strip steak, strip poker and strip club.
Which left choke, mist, tear and well as my final four.
