Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Wednesday, July 17

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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another game of Connections!

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

In Connections, you’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are…

• PACK
• CART
• CHECK
• HAMPER
• BANK
• WASHING
• SCHOOL
• LAUNDROMAT
• BIDE
• PRIDE
• CURB
• NIX
• POST OFFICE
• INHIBIT
• SUPERMARKET
• SWARM

And the hints for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group — familiar locations
• Green group — hold back
• Blue group — many of the same critters
• Purple group — leaders of the free world, perhaps familiarly

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s groups are…

• Yellow group — buildings around town
• Green group — hinder
• Blue group — animal group names
• Purple group — starts of U.S. presidents

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are…

• Yellow group — buildings around town (BANK, LAUNDROMAT, POST OFFICE, SUPERMARKET)
• Green group — hinder (CHECK, CURB, HAMPER, INHIBIT)
• Blue group — animal group names (PACK, PRIDE, SCHOOL, SWARM)
• Purple group — starts of U.S. presidents (BIDE, CART, NIX, WASHING)

No perfect game today, but I’m up to 10 wins in a row.

The yellow group was fairly obvious aside from the fact there were five possibilities for the group. However, PRIDE and SWARM made it clear that SCHOOL was the outlier. Blues and yellows = sorted.

The greens gave me a bit of trouble. I had HAMPER, INHIBIT and CURB but the fourth word wasn’t immediately clear. I incorrectly guessed NIX and BIDE before getting the correct answer. That left the purple group, for which I did not figure out the connection, for victory.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Thursday’s game if you need them.

P.S. Since SCHOOL is one of today’s words, let’s go with this song from Rival Schools that I love deeply. That second verse hit uncomfortably close to home for a while, but I’m in a better place now, thankfully.