NYT Connections hint (Fri, 10 Jul)

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Connections hint for Friday 10th July

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Find these on your phone.
• 🟩 Green hint: Tempting words for the second stomach.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Electronic pioneers of the 80s.
• 🟪 Purple hint: The calls are hiding in plain sight.
• Extra hint 1: One category involves finding words inside others.
• Extra hint 2: Every group except purple has at least one word containing the letter 'H'

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

• 🟨 Yellow: Do Not Disturb
• 🟩 Green: Molten
• 🟦 Blue: Erasure
• 🟪 Purple: Outkast

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: Smartphone Settings
• 🟩 Green: Dessert Menu Descriptors
• 🟦 Blue: '80s Synth-Pop Bands
• 🟪 Purple: Starting with Baseball Calls

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 Friday, 10th July:

• 🟨 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)

This puzzle was perfect for those with a taste for sweets and 80s music! Two excellent areas of expertise. For me, the blue group was the hardest to place, though. And that's saying something, because the purple group and I don't often get along!

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!