Today’s Connections Hint and Answer July 22 for 407

It’s time to start the work week and there’s nothing better to get back on track than a quick brain exercise like determining the Connections response for today, July 22.

If you’ve never played it, Connections challenges you to sort a group of 16 words into four groups where all the words are well… connected. This connection could come from the fact that they share a similar meaning, are part of a place name, objects found in a kitchen, or anything else really!

Although it may seem easy, the connection groups each have a different level of difficulty – yellow being the easiest and purple being the most difficult. For this reason, practice Today’s Login Response This can be quite complicated. You may get one group right away, but another may be a mystery to you. Luckily, we are here to help!

Originally developed at the New York Times’ annual game jam, Connections was released in beta in June 2023. It has since become one of the most popular games featured by the NYTimes, second only to Worlde. Although some connections have been made to the BBC’s Only Connect program…

Hint for today’s Connections answer

Instead of jumping straight to the answer, let’s start with some clues for today’s Connections riddle:

• YELLOW – Words related to knowledge of specific objects.
• Green – Objects you use to play music.
• Blue – Manage the flow of cars.
• Purple – Words that go well with food.
• Field belongs to the yellow group, Horn to the green and Flare to the blue.

Remember: yellow is the easiest group to find, followed by green and blue, with purple being the hardest set of words to connect.

Login Words for July 22

Here are the words included in today’s Connections puzzle – see if the clues above help you make a connection before visiting today’s answer:

Pyramid	Horn	Cone	Chain
Struggle	Flag	Field	To burst
Sphere	Predecessor	Recorder	Barrier
Triangle	Domain	Violin	Area

Connections response for July 22

Without further ado, here is Connections’ response for today:

• Expertise field – Area, Domain, Field, Sphere.
• Musical instruments – Violin, Horn, Recorder, Triangle.
• Used to redirect traffic – Barrier, Cone, Flag, Flare.
• Food____ – Chain, Combat, Processor, Pyramid.

In today’s puzzle, I was able to find all the groups just because of the ease of the Yellow and Green groups. Finding them early and not wasting any tries doing so is the best way to ensure you have enough tries to try to get the hard ones. Fiddle and Triangle sold me on the idea of ​​musical instruments, so I just had to find two more. Then Domain and Field had the potential to form a group, which made me look for other words that might go well with them. Once I had those two words solved, I focused on mixing up some of the remaining words and using the tries I had left to complete the game.

What to play after Connections?

The obvious answer to this question is Wordle, but if you’ve already solved that problem today, the New York Times has other games to offer. As for word-based games, the NYTimes offers Mini Crossword, Spelling Bee, Letter Boxed, and Strands, which is still in beta. If you feel like taking a break from words, you can also try Tiles — a pattern-matching game — or Sudoku.

Outside of the NYTimes, there is Semantle, where you have to find the secret word by guessing its meaning. Spelling doesn’t matter in Semantle, instead you have to pay attention to the numerical value of your guesses to plot your way to the answer. However, if you prefer to stick to the Connections format, it’s worth checking out Puzzgrid. There are hundreds of Connections-style puzzles there, but the twist is that you only have three minutes to solve them.

(You can also just watch Only Connect on BBC iPlayer…)

If you’re in the mood to read, we explained why the NYTimes’ crossword puzzle is a reliable joy and interviewed Jonathan Knight, head of games for the NYTimes.

Good luck solving today’s connections!