Today's puzzle is not about action movies, but it's related.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for August 7 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,153. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,152, 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
- Jackpot
- Motor
- Snow
- Jar
- Wick
- Sundae
- Rambo
- Buttons
- Tomatillo
- Shaft
- Wax
- Buckyball
- Liquid Nitrogen
- Fragrance
- Cables
- Refrigerator
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Little lights
- 🟩 Green: Freeze it
- 🟦 Blue: Going up
- 🟪 Purple: Going stag
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: Components of a candle
- 🟩 Green: Cold things
- 🟦 Blue: Parts of an elevator
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with male animals
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 August 7 for puzzle #1,153 are a little easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Components of a candle: Fragrance, jar, wax, wick
- 🟩 Cold things: Liquid nitrogen, refrigerator, snow, sundae
- 🟦 Parts of an elevator: Buttons, cables, motor, shaft
- 🟪 Starting with male animals: Buckyball, jackpot, rambo, tomatillo
I took an immediate strike because the first thing I saw was the action movies in Wick, Rambo, Snow and Shaft. Still, that did give me a clue as to where to travel.
I started with Snow because it's probably the rarest of the four and may or may not refer to a character from Hunger Games. I also may be stretching here. Anyway, the cooling started with snow, liquid nitrogen, sundae and for some reason I picked refrigerator last.
I jumped to wick next to get the candle bits of jar, wax and fragrance.
Shaft was my next clue, where I wasn't thinking elevator but instead car engine. Same same, I suppose, with buttons, cables and motor.
Which left the male animals of buckyball, jackpot, rambo, and tomatillo.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Classic wooden toys: Alphabet blocks, cup-and-ball, jacob's ladder, lincoln logs
- 🟩 Places with lanes: Bowling alley, freeway, supermarket, swimming pool
- 🟦 Iconic Roman landscapes: Colosseum, pantheon, spanish steps, trevi fountain
- 🟪 Places with nets: Barclays center, fishing boat, hockey rink, tennis court
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,152, which had a difficulty rating of 2.8 out of 5.
Lately, I've been great at picking the blues first but not seeing the purple set until late. That trend continues today.
I wasn't sure but I saw the Roman landmarks first with Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps. Colosseum and Pantheon were quick follows.
I honestly wasn't thinking lanes when I put freeway, supermarket, swimming pool and bowling alley together. For some reason, I had The Sims in mind, but it worked.
I knew the kids' toys for a while, so I just threw in the purple set of Barclays Center, fishing boat, hockey rink and tennis court without making the net connection. Honestly, I forgot who plays at Barclays but then the Nets as a team are that forgettable.
This left the toys as my final four with alphabet blocks, cup-and-ball, Jacob's Ladder and Lincoln Logs.
