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Connections answers for 27 July 2026

Monday, 27 July 2026 · Puzzle 1142

All four groups for puzzle 1142. This page shows the answers in full.

Yellow: gymnastics apparatus

BEAMHORSERINGSVAULT

Green: long tapered things

CARROTICICLEKNITTING NEEDLESTALACTITE

Blue: kinds of shifts

DOPPLERGRAVEYARDPARADIGMSTICK

Purple: icons on a shopping site

BELLCARTHEARTMAGNIFYING GLASS

Try your groups on today's grid

This is today's grid as the game lays it out. Tap four words that belong together and press Check. We will tell you if it is a group, one word away, or not a group. You get four mistakes, the same as the game.

Mistakes left: ● ● ● ●

Stuck on one group?

Each group opens in three steps: a nudge, then its category, then the four words. Open only as many as you need.

Yellow

Not opened yet.

Green

Not opened yet.

Blue

Not opened yet.

Purple

Not opened yet.

The hints we wrote

  1. Yellow is the easiest group and purple the hardest. One yellow word is BEAM.
  2. Yellow is about: gymnastics apparatus.
  3. Green is about: long tapered things.
  4. Blue is about: kinds of shifts.
  5. Purple is about: icons on a shopping site.

Neighbouring days

Questions, answered briefly

What were the Connections answers for 27 July 2026?

Yellow (gymnastics apparatus): BEAM, HORSE, RINGS, VAULT. Green (long tapered things): CARROT, ICICLE, KNITTING NEEDLE, STALACTITE. Blue (kinds of shifts): DOPPLER, GRAVEYARD, PARADIGM, STICK. Purple (icons on a shopping site): BELL, CART, HEART, MAGNIFYING GLASS.

Which group was hardest?

Purple is the hardest by design. That day it was icons on a shopping site.

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