Want a link suggestion today? Building on the monumental success of the daily Wordle puzzle game, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s called Connections, and if you haven’t played it before, now is the time to start.
In this guide, we’ll give you a handy selection of hints for today’s Tuesday, July 16th Connections puzzle, before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if this is your first time coming from Wordle!
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Link words Tuesday, July 16
For reference, here are the 16 Link words for today:
| Pan | Pilot | Short | rabbit |
| CHECK | Parker | Strange | TRIAL |
| pepper | piper | Tested | INVESTIGATIVE |
| With happiness | Not clear | Precautions | Jersey |
Moving links for July 16
Here’s a hint for each of the word groups in today’s Connections puzzle, plus some other clues to help you find the answer:
- Yellow (lightest): Words to anger.
- Green (light): Try something before you commit to it.
- Blue (medium): These words all have one thing in common.
- Purple (harder): All these words come before a boy’s name starting with ‘P’.
- Additional tip 1: Piper and Fiddler belong to two different groups.
- Additional tip 2: Short does not refer to stature here.
Link groups for July 16
If you need an even bigger clue to understanding today’s Conjunction puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four proper Conjunction groups—the themes that tie together each group of four words in the Conjunction network.
Here are the Link sets for today:
- In a bad mood
- Experimental
- The Beginnings of Broadway Musicals
- peter ___
Now that you know the themes for the different links in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler alert! Today’s Links Answer is ahead!
What is the answer to Connections today (Tuesday 16 July)?
- In a bad mood: Cross, short, odd, tested
- Experimental: Researcher, Pilot, Preliminary, Judge
- The Beginnings of Broadway Musicals: Fiddler, Jersey, Kinky, Merrily
- Peter ___: Pan, Parker, Piper, Rabbit
Congratulations if you got today’s Links answer right, with or without the help of our helpful 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!
What is Links?
Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by the NYT, hosts of the wildly popular Wordle puzzle. Created daily by crossword creator Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly different words and you must group them together into four groups of four, with each group of four having a theme of common.
For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter” and “Wendy” are all characters from Peter Pan. Or to take another example, “Action,” “Ballpark,” “Go,” and “Stick” are all words that usually come just before the word “Figure.”
It’s your job to figure out what these threads are that tie the different words together – but be careful, because many times there are red herring links put there deliberately to throw you off! To win the game, you must find all four Links without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, it’s game over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s link puzzle is also assigned a different color, which indicates how easy or difficult the Link is to find. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (easy), blue (medium) and purple (hardest).
That concludes today’s guide on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for help with Wordle, we’ve also got you covered with our list of past Wordle answers, as well as Wordle hints and answers for Tuesday July 16th. You can also check out our list of the best Wordle starters, or use our Wordle Solver tool to help you find the answer with ease!