For players seeking assistance with the New York Times Connections puzzle on Friday, July 10, 2026, Rock Paper Shotgun has released a comprehensive guide. The puzzle presents a unique set of challenges, and the guide aims to help players maintain their solving streaks.
Today's Hints
The puzzle's categories have been detailed with specific hints for each color-coded group:
- Yellow: Words related to smartphone settings. A hint suggests finding these on your phone.
- Green: Terms that describe desserts, specifically relating to taste or texture. The hint points to words for a "second stomach."
- Blue: Electronic music pioneers from the 1980s. The hint focuses on "Electronic pioneers of the 80s."
- Purple: Words associated with starting baseball calls, with a hint noting that "the calls are hiding in plain sight."
Additional clues reveal that one category involves words embedded within others, and most groups, excluding purple, contain at least one word with the letter 'H'.
Category Solutions
For those who require more direct assistance, the full solutions for each category have been disclosed. The categories are:
- Yellow: Smartphone Settings (Airplane Mode, Do Not Disturb, Hotspot, Location Services)
- Green: Dessert Menu Descriptors (Decadent, Fresh-Baked, Molten, À la Mode)
- Blue: '80s Synth-Pop Bands (Depeche Mode, Erasure, New Order, Pet Shop Boys)
- Purple: Starting with Baseball Calls (Ball Gown, Outkast, Safe Mode, Strike a Pose)
The guide notes that the blue and purple categories may present particular difficulty for some players, while the yellow and green categories offer more straightforward connections for those with an interest in technology and culinary terms, respectively.
A new Connections puzzle is released daily at midnight, offering a fresh challenge for players each day.