Yahoo Tech published hints and spoilers for New York Times Connections puzzle #1,120 on Sunday, July 5, giving players a fresh clue for the day’s grid and confirming the game’s daily reset at midnight. The yellow group hint was “Things you’d find in a breakfast bar,” and that was enough to point solvers toward a clean finish for the easiest category.
Players of NYT Connections were looking for the puzzle because it is built around a four-by-four grid of 16 words, with four guesses before the game ends and the answers are revealed. In that setup, a clue like breakfast-bar items matters because yellow is the easiest group, and it can narrow the board quickly before the harder categories start to blur together. The same update also pointed readers to today’s Wordle hints and answer, along with today’s Strands hints and answers, keeping the day’s puzzle traffic in one place.
The writer said the puzzle was mostly easy and finished the groups in the order green, yellow, blue, purple, but one mistake came while working through the blue set. That small slip is the kind of thing Connections players know well: a board can look straightforward until one category shifts just enough to cost a guess. Even with that stumble, the solve landed cleanly, and the yellow clue did its job by revealing a group that fit the breakfast-bar theme without much detour.
Connections is a New York Times staff-created word game, and the daily cadence is part of why these hints keep drawing readers back. The next board will not wait; it resets each night at midnight, bringing a new grid and a new set of guesses. For players chasing San Anselmo Connections today, the real answer is already in the clue: the yellow group is the easiest place to start, but the board still rewards anyone who can move past the obvious and stay sharp when the blue category starts to wobble.
