NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, July 25 (game #1140)
Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.
A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, July 24 (game #1139).
Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #1140) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- STEAK
- LEONE
- PRIMO
- MALL
- MADRE
- MIST
- POKER
- CHOKE
- CLUB
- RAND
- TEAR
- NAIRA
- HIJO
- KWANZA
- WELL
- ABUELA
NYT Connections today (game #1140) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Family members in another language
- GREEN: Sob
- BLUE: Money on the second largest continent
- PURPLE: Begin with a word that rhymes with “dip”
Need more clues?
We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #1140) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SPANISH RELATIVES
- GREEN: START TO CRY, WITH "UP"
- BLUE: AFRICAN CURRENCIES
- PURPLE: STRIP____
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #1140) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #1140, are…
- YELLOW: SPANISH RELATIVES: ABUELA, HIJO, MADRE, PRIMO
- GREEN: START TO CRY, WITH "UP": CHOKE, MIST, TEAR, WELL
- BLUE: AFRICAN CURRENCIES: KWANZA, LEONE, NAIRA, RAND
- PURPLE: STRIP____: CLUB, MALL, POKER, STEAK
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
Well this was annoying. As I was submitting AFRICAN CURRENCIES I couldn’t help but think to myself “I bet this bit of knowledge is worth a purple”, but no.
Sadly, knowing that KWANZA is used in Angola, the RAND in South Africa, LEONE in Sierra Leone, and NAIRA in Nigeria was only worth a blue. So where was the purple?
The answer came in the form of, in my view, the far easier thread of STRIP____.
I ended without any mistakes on what felt like a tricky game, so I’m not that annoyed really.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, July 24, 2026, game #1139)
- YELLOW: TALK AT LENGTH: BABBLE, DRONE, RAMBLE, YAK
- GREEN: OUTCOMES FOR A BATTER: HOME RUN, SINGLE, STRIKEOUT, WALK
- BLUE: BRING TO MIND, AS A MEMORY: JOG, PROMPT, REFRESH, SPARK
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF RELIGIOUS ROLES: CANTER, FRYER, LLAMA, NONE
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
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