Today's puzzle is babbles through some church baseball.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for July 24 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,139. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,138, 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
- Spark
- Canter
- Llama
- Job
- Walk
- Yak
- Single
- None
- Ramble
- Prompt
- Fryer
- Drone
- Refresh
- Strikeout
- Babble
- Home Run
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Chatter
- 🟩 Green: Swing
- 🟦 Blue: Remember
- 🟪 Purple: Prayer
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: Talk at length
- 🟩 Green: Outcomes for a batter
- 🟦 Blue: Bring to mind, as a memory
- 🟪 Purple: Homophones of religious roles
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 24 for puzzle #1,139 are the same difficulty as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Talk at length: Babble, drone, ramble, yak
- 🟩 Outcomes for a batter: Home run, single, strikeout, walk
- 🟦 Bring to mind, as a memory: Job, prompt, refresh, spark
- 🟪 Homophones of a religious roles: Canter, fryer, llama, none
I've had baseball on the mind as my favorite team plays seemingly perfect .500 ball. So I started wtih home run, single, strikeout and walk.
I did take a strike trying out what I thought were social media apps like Yak, but I was thinking of Yik Yak. To reset, I used yak to get the yellow set with babble, drone, ramble and yak.
Next, I went to the memory bank with refresh, spark, prompt and jog.
This left the religious homophones of canter (cantor), fryer (friar), llama (lama), and none (nun).
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Spherical things: Baseball, globe, marble, orange
- 🟩 In an anxious state: Excited, febrile, frenetic, intense
- 🟦 Parts of an airport: Apron, hangar, runway, terminal
- 🟪 Ending in geometry terms: Appoint, deplane, feline, jangle
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,138, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
Admittedly, I finished today's puzzle, but it took a while. For some reason, I was just not making the connections.
The first one I saw was a month abbreviations puzzle that was a failure. But it enabled me to see febrile, frenetic, excited and intense. Then I got stuck for some time.
Eventually, I tried baseball, globe, marble and orange as round things.
I had seen the airport words in terminal, hangar, runway and apron, but for some reason wasn't willing to commit until now.
Finally, this left appoint, deplane, feline and jangle, which end in geometry terms. It's like that some days.
