Today's puzzle is a tough one!
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for July 4 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,120. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,119, 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
- Win
- Oats
- Green
- Wire
- West
- Card
- With
- Honey
- Gold
- Tungsten
- Check
- Seeds
- Cash
- Platinum
- Nuts
- Centurion
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Healthy snack
- 🟩 Green: Funds
- 🟦 Blue: Don't live life without it
- 🟪 Purple: Abbreviation
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:
- 🟨 Granola Ingredients
- 🟩 Payment Methods
- 🟦 Amex Card Types
- 🟪 What "W" Might Stand For
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 5 for puzzle #1,120 are a shade harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Granola Ingredients: Honey, Nuts, Oats, Seeds
- 🟩 Payment Methods: Card, Cash, Check, Wire
- 🟦 Amex Card Types: Centurion, Gold, Green, Platinum
- 🟪 What "W" Might Stand For: Tungsten, West, Win, With
Today's puzzle was fairly easy for me, though I went all sorts of out of order, starting with the payment methods and then going to AMEX, which is also a form of payment in and of itself.
From there, I took a couple of guesses before locking in on granola, then got the big finish with the process of elimination.
I have to say, though, I'm not sure I would have found the purple category if it weren't for them being the only ones left.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Persist: Continue, Last, Linger, Stay
- 🟩 Kinds Of Poems: Ballad, Epic, Ode, Villanelle
- 🟦 Tropical Drinks: Hurricane, Painkiller, Scorpion, Zombie
- 🟪 Sweet ___: Dreams, Nothings, Pea, Spot
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,117, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
Today's puzzle almost stumped me, despite its relatively low difficulty rating. I managed to figure out persist and poems in a few moments, but then I hit a wall and wasted several guesses trying to figure out blue and purple.
After a little trial and error, I actually got the purple before the blue, connecting the things people say after "sweet" together.
Turns out, as a non-drinker, the blue clue, being all mixed drinks, left me unable to figure it out, but getting the purple clues allowed me to select the final four by process of elimination.
