This guide is for the previous day! Looking for a solution today? Check out the Connections clue and answer for Thursday, July 4th!
Want a tip on Connections today? Following on from the monumental success of the daily puzzle game Wordle, the New York Times now has another fantastically popular word game available. It’s called Connections, and if you haven’t played it yet, it’s time to start.
In this guide, we’ll give you a handy pick for today’s Thursday 4th July Connections puzzle before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if it’s your first time coming from Wordle!
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Connection words on Thursday 4th July
For reference, here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Fireworks | Freedom | Cookies | Dinner |
| History | Chemistry | Revolution | Tinker |
| Data | Bar | Sparks | Wedge |
| Cycle | Caches | Turn | Attraction |
Help link for the 4th of July
Here’s a clue for each of the word groups in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a few more clues to help you find the answer:
- Yellow (easiest): These words are associated with romantic feelings.
- Green (easy): These words are associated with web browsers.
- Blue (Medium): Words describing the movement of an object in a circular or elliptical direction.
- Purple (Hardest): All these words come before a hollow instrument that rings.
- Another tip 1: Liberty and Fireworks belong to two different groups.
- Another tip 2: Tinker is used here as a noun, not a verb.
Connection groups for the 4th of July
If you need even more of a clue to understand today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups—the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are today’s connection groups:
- Romantic relationship
- Things saved by your web browser
- One turn
- Words before ‘Bell’
Now that you know the themes for the various different connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, see the full answer below.
Spoiler alert! Today’s Connections answer is upon us!
What is the response to Connections today (Thursday 4th July)?
- Romantic relationship: Attraction, chemistry, fireworks, sparks
- Things saved by your web browser: Cache, cookies, data, history
- One turn: Cycle, wheel, turn, revolution
- Words before ‘Bell’: Bar, Dinner, Liberty, Tinker
Congratulations if you answered correctly today, either with or without the help of our helpful hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle comes out every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!
What is a connection?
Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by the NYT, host of the endlessly popular Wordle puzzle. Created daily by crossword creator Wyna Liu, the connection gives you a choice of 16 seemingly disparate words to group into four sets of four, with each group of four words sharing a common theme.
For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter” and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go” and “Stick” are all words that commonly occur right before the word “Figure”.
It’s your job to figure out what these themes are that connect the different words together – but be careful, because often the red herring connectors are placed there on purpose to throw you off! To win the game, you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connection puzzle is also assigned a different color to represent how easy or difficult it is to find the Connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (easy), blue (medium) and purple (hardest).
That concludes today’s tutorial on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for help with Wordle, we’ve also got our list of past Wordle answers as well as the Wordle hint and answer for Thursday 4th July. You can also check out our list of the best Wordle starter words or use our Wordle Solver tool to help you find the answer easily!