These hints and answers are for the Sunday, July 20, 2025, NYT Connections puzzle, game #770. Read the clues first, reveal the category labels next, and open the full answer key only when you’re ready for spoilers.
Spoiler-safe hints for Connections #770
Try each clue before moving to the category labels.
- Yellow: Almost dancing.
- Green: Breathe in.
- Blue: Not stirred.
- Purple: Add a word.
Category labels
- Yellow: MOVE TO THE MUSIC
- Green: INHALATION
- Blue: MARTINI SPECIFICATIONS
- Purple: ___WORD
Full answers for July 20, 2025
Spoilers below.
| Color | Category | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | MOVE TO THE MUSIC | BOP, BOUNCE, GROOVE, SWAY |
| Green | INHALATION | DRAG, DRAW, PUFF, PULL |
| Blue | MARTINI SPECIFICATIONS | DRY, GIN, SHAKEN, TWIST |
| Purple | ___WORD | BUZZ, CROSS, LOAN, PASS |
Why the groups fit
Yellow: MOVE TO THE MUSIC
BOP, BOUNCE, GROOVE, and SWAY are ways to move along with music.
Green: INHALATION
DRAG, DRAW, PUFF, and PULL can each describe drawing smoke or air inward.
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Blue: MARTINI SPECIFICATIONS
DRY, GIN, SHAKEN, and TWIST are associated with how a martini is made or served.
Purple: ___WORD
Each word combines with “word” to make a familiar term: buzzword, crossword, loanword, and password.
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What makes this board tricky
Several words invite more than one association. DRAW, PULL, PASS, and CROSS might suggest a card-game grouping, but the intended sets split them across INHALATION and ___WORD. Check a tempting group against the rest of the board before submitting it; Connections has one intended solution even when individual words seem to fit several ideas.
How Connections works and where to replay
The New York Times Help Center explains that Connections gives players 16 words to sort into four groups of four. Yellow is the easiest category and purple the trickiest; editors curate the words and categories using the Oxford Dictionary. The puzzle releases at midnight in each player’s timezone, so the local calendar date can differ, but this board is identified as Sunday, July 20, 2025, game #770.
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Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.Word list note
TechRadar’s rendered word list shows its first entry in Cyrillic characters as “ВОР.” The answer set for the yellow group is rendered as BOP, BOUNCE, GROOVE, and SWAY. The original board should be checked before treating that source rendering as a confirmed English spelling.
The historical categories and answers are also shown in TechRadar’s July 20, 2025 guide. Its writer calls the puzzle hard as a personal assessment; no measured difficulty score or solve-rate statistic is established for this game.
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