Connectionsis back with another challenging daily word-sorting puzzle. to celebrate its 500th puzzle, the New York Times has come up with a uniquely themed and extremely difficult puzzle for today.
If you already knowhow to playConnectionsand are stuck, this article is here to help you out. In it, you can find all sorts of helpful hints, spoilers for categories, and even the full answer to the puzzle if you want it.
Words in the NYT Connections Puzzle #500 for Jul 08, 2025
TheConnectionspuzzle for today contains the words:Jeans, Jacket, Rain, Haze, Goblin, Jay, Beret, Cab, Moon, Pages, Heart, Thumb, Prose, Salad, Whale, and Journalism.
Hints for the NYT Connections Puzzle
All sorts of hints and spoilers can be found for theNew York Times GamesConnectionspuzzle. If you want to see a hint, look for the header that has the thing you want to see and press the Read More button below it.
Some General Hints for the Whole Connections Puzzle
Here are some hints for thispuzzle game:
There are a lot of color words in this puzzle.
Heart and Rain are in the same group.
Yellow NYT Connections Category Hints
Here are some hints for the yellow/straightforward answer:All these can follow the same color word to make four common things.
Yellow Connections Category Answer and All Four Words
The answer to the yellow/straightforwardConnectionsisYellow _____.
The four words for this group in the puzzle are:Cab, Jacket, Journalism, Pages.
Green NYT Connections Category Hints
Here are some hints for the green/medium difficulty answer:All these can follow the same color word to make four common things.
Green Connections Category Answer and All Four Words
The answer to the green/medium difficultyConnectionsisGreen _____.
The four words for this group in the puzzle are:Beret, Goblin, Salad, Thumb.
Blue NYT Connections Category Hints
Here are some hints for the blue/difficult answer:All these can follow the same color word to make four common things.
Blue Connections Category Answer and All Four Words
The answer to the blue/difficultConnectionsisBlue _____.
The four words for this group in the puzzle are:Jay, Jeans, Moon, Whale.
Purple NYT Connections Category Hints
Here are some hints for the purple/tricky answer in thisminimalist puzzle game:All these can follow the same color word to make four common things.
Purple Connections Category Answer and All Four Words
The answer to the purple/tricky difficulty inConnectionsisPurple _____.
The four words for this group in the puzzle are:Haze, Heart, Prose, Rain.
Answers for Today’s NYT Connections #500 for July 17, 2025
The full answer to thisfree browser gameis located in the section below. Open it up to take a peek at the categories and what words go in which ones.
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