Today's puzzle is quite tricky, so take it slowly.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for July 1 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,116. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,115, 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
- Chicago
- Long Island
- Nigeria
- Cologne
- Indianapolis
- Munich
- Limerick
- Singapore
- Casablanca
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Champagne
- Guinea-Bissau
- China
- Fargo
- Mosco
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Homophone
- 🟩 Green: To the movies
- 🟦 Blue: Have a drink
- 🟪 Purple: Geographic
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: Things named after places
- 🟩 Green: Best picture winners/nominees
- 🟦 Blue: Places in cocktail names
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with countries
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 1 for puzzle #1,116 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Dividing structures: Fence, gate, hedge, wall
- 🟩 Participate in some Winter Olympics: Curl, luge, skate, ski
- 🟦 Common recyclables: Bottle, box, can, newspaper
- 🟪 What "draft" might refer to: Breeze, on tap, recruit, sketch
Casablanca had me thinking of movies straight away, so it was short work knocking out Fargo, Munich and Chicago.
Long Island and Moscow shifted next to each other when I put in the green set. Seeing those put me in mind of cocktails. Moscow and Singapore were quick finds.
I took the homophones next when I was thinking of champagne and champagne. Thus, we got to china, cologne and limerick.
Admittedly, I never made the geography connection in this geographic grid, which is an annoying failure. So my final four were Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Indianapolis, and Nigeria.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Dividing structures: Fence, gate, hedge, wall
- 🟩 Participate in some Winter Olympics: Curl, luge, skate, ski
- 🟦 Common recyclables: Bottle, box, can, newspaper
- 🟪 What "draft" might refer to: Breeze, on tap, recruit, sketch
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,115, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
I was looking for ways to get beer when I put together box, bottle, can, and on tap. The one away mark got me to swap out on tap for newspaper to get recyclables next.
I nabbed the Winter Olympics words in curl, luge, skate and ski next as a kind of reset for myself.
Returning to the beer idea, I started with on tap, which got me to sketch with drafting. That's how I found breeze and recruit after that.
Which left fence, gate, hedge, and wall to wrap it up.
