It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another game of Connections!

Wimbledon, one of my favorite sporting events of the year, is under way. For the first time, I entered the ballot for tickets. That was sometime last fall. I only just remembered about that a couple of days ago. I searched my inbox and, sure enough, I received an email in March to inform me I had been selected to buy tickets. Oops!

That would have been worth a trans-Atlantic trip for sure. Hopefully I’ll be able to attend in the future.

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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, July 2 are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT’s website or Games app.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

• OEDIPUS
• REX
• FAKE
• ID
• FRESHWATER
• SOPHOCLES
• JUNIPER
• SENECA
• COPY
• SLIP
• BOOTLEG
• MOBILE
• SHIRT
• PAIN
• DREAMS
• REPLICA

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• ? Yellow group — counterfeit
• ? Green group — linked to the creator of psychoanalysis
• ? Blue group — like square and bone
• ? Purple group — where youthful years are left behind

One Word For Each Connections Group

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Let’s take a look at one word for each group.

Today’s Connections word hints are…

• ? Yellow group — COPY
• ? Green group — ID
• ? Blue group — SHIRT
• ? Purple group — JUNIPER

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Today’s Connections groups are...

• ? Yellow group — knockoff
• ? Green group — associated with Freud
• ? Blue group — words after "T-"
• ? Purple group — starting with high-school/college abbreviations

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

• ? Yellow group — knockoff (BOOTLEG, COPY, FAKE, REPLICA)
• ? Green group — associated with Freud (DREAMS, ID, OEDIPUS, SLIP)
• ? Blue group — words after "T-" (MOBILE, PAIN, REX, SHIRT)
• ? Purple group — starting with high-school/college abbreviations (FRESHWATER, JUNIPER, SENECA, SOPHOCLES)

I literally grimaced when I drank in all the words on the grid. My knowledge of Greek mythology is pretty low. I had no idea about SOPHOCLES or SENECA, so I was worried this might spell doom for my 126-game streak.

I started off with the easy stuff. The yellows were no problem at all. REX and SHIRT were probably going to have "t-" before them. PAIN and MOBILE made perfect sense with those, so I got the blues.

ID made me think of the brain rather than a piece of identification, which aligned with DREAMS. Vaguely remembering the two years of psychology classes I took in university, I figured out the greens. (SLIP refers to a Freudian slip and OEDIPUS to the Oedipus complex.)

That left the purples. Absolutely no idea about this connection. I figured there had to be some wordplay afoot, and sure enough, there was. They refer to freshman (fresh/FRESHWATER), junior (jun/JUNIPER), senior (sen/SENECA) and sophomore (soph/SOPHOCLES).

I lucked my way to a perfect game for a 127th win on the spin. Here's my grid for today:

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That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday’s game if you need them.

P.S. Given the T-Pain reference in today’s game, I’m going to have to recommend this Grammy-nominated slice of silliness from the rapper and The Lonely Island. There are lots of swears in “I’m On A Boat,” so be warned. It’s lots of fun in any case, as it pokes fun at rap video clichés:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!

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