NYT Connections Game #1140 Hints and Answers for July 25 Word List
NYT Connections puzzle game #1140 is live now, and today’s set of words is built around four distinct categories—plus a couple of curveballs if you’re trying to guess too quickly. If you want to keep your streak alive, here are the group hints and the final answers for today.
NYT Connections today (Game #1140): the full word list
- STEAK
- LEONE
- PRIMO
- MALL
- MADRE
- MIST
- POKER
- CHOKE
- CLUB
- RAND
- TEAR
- NAIRA
- HIJO
- KWANZA
- WELL
- ABUELA
Group hints for Game #1140
- Yellow: Family members in another language
- Green: Sob
- Blue: Money on the second largest continent
- Purple: Begin with a word that rhymes with “dip”
What to put together: the category solutions
- Yellow: SPANISH RELATIVES
- Green: START TO CRY, WITH “UP”
- Blue: AFRICAN CURRENCIES
- Purple: STRIP____
NYT Connections Game #1140: the answers
- Yellow (SPANISH RELATIVES): ABUELA, HIJO, MADRE, PRIMO
- Green (START TO CRY, WITH “UP”): CHOKE, MIST, TEAR, WELL
- Blue (AFRICAN CURRENCIES): KWANZA, LEONE, NAIRA, RAND
- Purple (STRIP____): CLUB, MALL, POKER, STEAK
Difficulty and result
- Difficulty: Hard
- Outcome: Perfect
How Connections works (quick refresher)
- You’re tasked with grouping answers into sets of four that share a common link.
- Difficulty tiers are color-coded: green is easiest, then yellow, with blue typically tougher, and purple usually the hardest.
- You can make up to four mistakes, and the final category can be solved by elimination.
- The game is available for free on the NYT Games site on both desktop and mobile.
