Today's puzzle is a tough one!
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for July 6 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,121. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,120, 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
- Atom
- Bombshell
- Bumblebee
- DNA
- Earthquake Pills
- Grind Rail
- Iron Bird Seed
- Matcha
- Revelation
- Rocket Skates
- Shocker
- Solar System
- Thunderbolt
- Tinderbox
- TNT
- Volcano
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Whoa
- 🟩 Green: Kids' project
- 🟦 Blue: Fast bird
- 🟪 Purple: Meet your match
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:
- 🟨 Stunning News
- 🟩 Science Fair Model Subjects
- 🟦 Acme Products Used by Wile E. Coyote
- 🟪 Starting with Dating Apps
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 6 for puzzle #1,121 are overwhelmingly harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 5 out of 5. That's the hardest difficulty a puzzle can possibly be!
- 🟨 Granola Ingredients: Bombshell, Revelation, Shocker, Thunderbolt
- 🟩 Payment Methods: Atom, DNA, Solar System, Volcano
- 🟦 Acme Products Used by Wile E. Coyote: Earthquake Pills, Iron Bird Seed, Rocket Skates, TNT
- 🟪 Starting with Dating Apps: Bumblebee, Grind Rail, Matcha, Tinderbox
I picked a terrible weekend to cover for the regular Connections writer, as I stumbled into a 5-out-of-5 difficulty puzzle. I'm not too proud to admit I completely failed to guess anything after the yellow, which was hard enough on its own.
If you succeeded today, congratulations. If you're here because you were on the verge of failure and you wanted to keep your streak alive, I totally get it.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 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
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,120, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
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.
