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The yellow group featured synonyms for something incredibly large or giant.
The blue group was a cleverly disguised and challenging basketball equipment vocabulary set.
The purple group displayed clever phonetic substitutions on words related to theft.
Welcome back, puzzle lovers! It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time for another brain-boosting session with NYT Connections Today. If you've been keeping your streak alive, you’re in for a treat because the NYT Connections July 24 puzzle delivers a clever mix of logic, language, and sneaky wordplay. Let’s dive right into today’s NYT Connections hints and unravel the NYT Connections answers together.
Each day, the New York Times offers up a grid of 16 seemingly unrelated words. The goal? Group these words into four sets of four based on a hidden connection. You only get four chances to make mistakes before the game ends. The difficulty is color-coded:
Yellow – easiest
Green – medium
Blue – hard
Purple – usually the trickiest, often involving homophones or cultural references
Shuffle the board if you're stuck. Sometimes a new layout helps uncover the patterns.
STEEL, POLE, GIANT, SPLIT, JET, LUTE, RIM, KNICK, NET, TITANIC, GREAT, BOUNCE, DIP, BACKBOARD, RABE, MAMMOTH
At first glance, this mix feels chaotic. Are we talking about basketball? Music? Seafood? Let’s see what the NYT Connections July 24 Clues suggest.
Yellow group – Appropriate ways to describe the Shanghai Tower or Godzilla
Green group – A bit like the Irish goodbye
Blue group – Easy to see when you’re in the paint?
Purple group – Use your ears before someone makes off with them, perhaps
GIANT
JET
NET
LUTE
These tiny clues helped unlock the logic hidden within each cluster.
Yellow group—Colossal: GIANT, GREAT, MAMMOTH, TITANIC
Green group—Leave quickly: BOUNCE, DIP, JET, SPLIT
Blue group—Parts of a basketball hoop: BACKBOARD, NET, POLE, RIM
Purple group—Homophones of synonyms for "nab": KNICK (nick), LUTE (loot), RABE (rob), STEEL (steal)
The yellow group is a smooth start for many. GIANT and TITANIC immediately signaled something "huge," and adding in MAMMOTH and GREAT completed the set. Straightforward and satisfying.
The blue group stands out to basketball fans. While GIANT and KNICK might suggest New York teams, NET, POLE, RIM, and BACKBOARD made more sense grouped. A smart misdirect by the game!
The green group is a fun play on ways to vanish from a social scene. BOUNCE, DIP, SPLIT, and JET all share a vibe of disappearing quickly. A relatable and clever set.
Then comes the purple group, arguably the hardest. At first glance, LUTE and RABE are completely out of place. But reading them phonetically reveals LOOT and ROB. With STEEL (steal) and KNICK (nick), the group transformed into a set of homophones for theft-related verbs. That twist was peak NYT Connections trickery.
NYT Connections July 24 is all about red herrings and smart associations. Whether you spot the basketball hardware or trip up when it comes to the phonetic traps, this puzzle kept solvers on their toes. It continues the tradition of blending logic, culture, and wordplay in all the right ways.
That wraps it up for today’s edition of NYT Connections Today. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the NYT Connections Answers Today and fresh hints for July 25. Until then, happy puzzling!
