NYT Connections hint (Mon, 27 Jul)

It's a brand new week! You don't want to start it off on the wrong foot by losing your streak straight away, do you?

Luckily, you don't have to. Here, we have subtle hints and full answers so you can slay any puzzle!

Click here to play today's NYT Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Monday 27th July

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Gold medals have been won on all four.
• 🟩 Green hint: Nature made some, humans made the rest.
• 🟦 Blue hint: They all involve change, but not in the same way.
• 🟪 Purple hint: You could pick out all of these icons from a page.
• Extra hint 1: One group features cickable things.
• Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'S'

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• 🟨 Yellow: Beam
• 🟩 Green: Knitting Needle
• 🟦 Blue: Paradigm
• 🟪 Purple: Heart

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

Today's Connections groups revealed

If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today's Connections puzzle, below we'll reveal the four correct Connections groups - the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• 🟨 Yellow: Gymnastics Apparatus
• 🟩 Green: Long Tapered Things
• 🟦 Blue: Kinds of Shifts
• 🟪 Purple: Icons on a Shopping Site

Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today's puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections answer lies ahead!

Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Monday, 27th July:

• 🟨 Yellow: Gymnastics Apparatus (Beam, Horse, Rings, Vault)
• 🟩 Green: Long Tapered Things (Carrot, Icicle, Knitting Needle, Stalactite)
• 🟦 Blue: Kinds of Shifts (Doppler, Graveyard, Paradigm, Stick)
• 🟪 Purple: Icons on a Shopping Site (Bell, Cart, Heart, Magnifying Glass)

This puzzle balanced gymnastics, geometry, vocabulary, and modern technology to create one, tricky Connections. Unfortunately, I found myself stuck wanting to match up horse, cart, and carrot for far too long. But once I managed to let go of that idea, it all fell into place!

Let us know in the comments below how you found today's puzzle! Here's my grid:

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Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!