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Connections July 19, 2026: Hints & Answers (#1210)

edited by Wyna Liu.

Recap

This Connections puzzle required linking tiles into groups based on their common themes, such as electrical components, digital verbs, toilet functions, and facial expressions

The sixteen tiles

The sixteen tiles as dealt. Reveal a group below to tint and caption its tiles here.

SWITCHSWIRLLONGGAMEPOKERPAIRFLUSHSTRAIGHTRELAYSYNCDRAINFUSECONNECTBREAKERREFILLJOIN

Connections hints, one rung at a time

Six rungs, softest first. The recap above already named the groups, so this ladder is here for anyone replaying the board fresh rather than as a spoiler shield.

  1. Four one-line nudges, one per group

    The softest hint there is.

    Yellow
    Electric parts
    Green
    Verb actions
    Blue
    Toilet functions
    Purple
    Facial types
  2. What linked each group, described

    Still no titles and no tiles named.

    Yellow group

    Common components found in electrical systems and circuits

    Green group

    Verbs used to describe linking or uniting digital entities

    Blue group

    Actions performed by toilets to manage waste and water

    Purple group

    Phrases describing common facial expressions or reactions

  3. Board facts

    Counted off the sixteen printed tiles.

    Sixteen tiles, four groups of four, ordered yellow → green → blue → purple from most to least obvious. Every tile was a single word.

    Tiles
    16 across 4 groups
    Longest tile
    8 characters
    Shortest tile
    4 characters
    Multi-word tiles
    0
    Back to the sixteen tiles
  4. The trap on this board

    Which tiles pulled in two directions.

    Some cards could fit into multiple categories, consider 'SWITCH' and 'SYNC' carefully, also 'GAME' and 'LONG' might be confusing

  5. The four category titles

    Half the answer.

    Yellow
    CIRCUIT COMPONENTS
    Green
    DIGITAL COUPLING VERBS
    Blue
    THINGS TOILETS DO
    Purple
    ___ FACE EXPRESSIONS
  6. One tile from each group

    The anchor most people misplaced, matched to its title.

    Yellow — CIRCUIT COMPONENTS
    RELAY
    Green — DIGITAL COUPLING VERBS
    SYNC
    Blue — THINGS TOILETS DO
    REFILL
    Purple — ___ FACE EXPRESSIONS
    POKER
    Open the full groupings

Every Connections group from that board

All four groups, folded. Opening one tints its four tiles above and captions them with the category name.

  • Yellow group · 4 tiles

    CIRCUIT COMPONENTS

    BREAKER, FUSE, RELAY, SWITCH. The yellow group, CIRCUIT COMPONENTS, consists of BREAKER, FUSE, RELAY, SWITCH

  • Green group · 4 tiles

    DIGITAL COUPLING VERBS

    CONNECT, JOIN, PAIR, SYNC. The green group, DIGITAL COUPLING VERBS, consists of CONNECT, JOIN, PAIR, SYNC

  • Blue group · 4 tiles

    THINGS TOILETS DO

    DRAIN, FLUSH, REFILL, SWIRL. The blue group, THINGS TOILETS DO, consists of DRAIN, FLUSH, REFILL, SWIRL

  • Purple group · 4 tiles

    ___ FACE EXPRESSIONS

    GAME, LONG, POKER, STRAIGHT. The purple group, ___ FACE EXPRESSIONS, consists of GAME, LONG, POKER, STRAIGHT

This board by the numbers

Puzzle
(#1210) · Sunday, July 19, 2026
Tiles
16 in a 4 × 4 grid
Groups
4, yellow to purple
Multi-word tiles
0
Longest tile
STRAIGHT
Mistakes allowed
4 before the board locked

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