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 Connections puzzle on Friday 5th July, 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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Linking words on Friday 5th July
For reference, here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Yen | Bond | Crazy | Power supply |
| Euro | O | Q | Luck |
| Long | M | TO | Pine |
| Gum | Nature | Desire | Penny |
Help link for July 5th
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): A desire or wish for something.
- Green (easy): All these words are names of famous publications.
- Blue (Medium): All these words are the names of characters from the famous series of spy films.
- Purple (Hardest): All these words come before the word for the sound of a light blow.
- Another tip 1: Four of these individual letters belong to three different groups.
- Another tip 2: It just doesn’t refer to currency here.
Connection groups for July 5th
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:
- Desire
- Magazines
- Characters in Bond movies
- Words that precede “pop” in music genres.
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 (Friday 5th July)?
- Desire: Desire, Long, Pine, Jen
- magazines: Fortune, Mad, Nature, O
- Characters in Bond films: Bond, M, Moneypenny, Q
- Words that precede “pop” in music genres: Bubblegum, Euro, K, Power
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 Friday 5th 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!