The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 23, 2024, arrived on schedule. It brought sixteen words. It brought four hidden categories. It brought the usual mix of satisfaction and the vague urge to throw your phone into a Android recycling bin. Puzzle number 1138. Let's get into it.
How to Play
If you're new here, the rules are simple. The game gives you a grid of sixteen words. Your job is to sort them into four groups of four. Each group shares a common thread. The threads are color-coded by difficulty: yellow is easiest, then green, blue, and purple. You get four mistakes. After that, the game ends and you have to wait for midnight. It's AI-curated chaos, but the human kind.
Today's Words
Here are the sixteen words for July 23:
JANGLE INTENSE ORANGE FELINE FEBRILE BASEBALL MARBLE APRON APPOINT TERMINAL EXCITED RUNWAY FRENETIC HANGAR DEPLANE GLOBE
Stare at them long enough and patterns emerge. Or they don't. That's the game.
Hints
Yellow category: Words that describe spherical items. Think round. Think Analogue sticks, but not.
Green category: Ways to describe feeling anxious. High energy. High stress. The feeling of checking your bank account after a Steam sale.
Blue category: Areas of an airport. Places you stand while questioning your life choices and the price of a Hudson News water bottle.
Purple category: Words ending with geometry terms. This is the one that makes you feel smart or stupid. No in-between.
Answers
Yellow (Spherical Things): BASEBALL, GLOBE, MARBLE, ORANGE
Green (Anxious Energy): EXCITED, FEBRILE, FRENETIC, INTENSE
Blue (Airport Zones): APRON, HANGAR, RUNWAY, TERMINAL
Purple (Geometry Suffixes): APPOINT, DEPLANE, FELINE, JANGLE
The purple group is the usual suspect. "Point," "plane," "line," "angle." Clever. Annoying. The kind of wordplay that makes you respect the constructor while muttering under your breath.
Reset Time
The puzzle resets at midnight local time. Wherever you are, that's when the new grid drops. You have twenty-four hours. No pressure. Well, some pressure. The streak counter watches. It judges.
How did you do? Clean sweep? One mistake? The kind of day where you stare at "FELINE" for ten minutes because your brain insists it's a cat category? Happens to the best of us. Even the Amazon delivery driver who brings your thermal paste has off days.
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