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NYT Drops July 15 Connections #1130; Wordle Answer PSHAW

7/16/2026

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NYTimes Releases Puzzle

The New York Times released the July 15, 2026 Connections puzzle #1130 and later posted its answers.
The puzzle’s four categories group legal terms (BAR, BENCH, COURT, TRIBUNAL), lace items (BASEBALL GLOVE, CORSET, FOOTBALL, SHOE), sport types (EXTREME, MOTOR, RACKET, WATER) and “room” phrases (BREATHING, ELBOW, HEAD, WIGGLE).
The Wordle puzzle for July 15, 2026 listed the answer PSHAW alongside the Connections solution.

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NYTimes Bot Scores

Midnight releases cause the puzzle to appear on days for players in various time zones.
A Connections Bot from the New York Times returns a numeric score and analyzes answer.
Registered players can view puzzles solved, win rate, perfect scores and win streaks.
Players may make four wrong guesses before the puzzle ends.
The July 15, 2026 puzzle, rated difficulty 2 out of 5, had one user log a perfect score.

History

Historical Context

After the Times added its first online crossword in the late 1990s, the 1993 appointment of Will Shortz as crossword editor cemented the paper’s digital puzzle push, which by 2024 attracted over 10 million daily players and 5.3 billion Wordle solves. Today, July 15 2026 releases of Connections and Wordle use Google-Cloud bots, echoing that early online-puzzle model.

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NYTimes Releases Puzzle

The New York Times released the July 15, 2026 Connections puzzle #1130 and later posted its answers.
The puzzle’s four categories group legal terms (BAR, BENCH, COURT, TRIBUNAL), lace items (BASEBALL GLOVE, CORSET, FOOTBALL, SHOE), sport types (EXTREME, MOTOR, RACKET, WATER) and “room” phrases (BREATHING, ELBOW, HEAD, WIGGLE).
The Wordle puzzle for July 15, 2026 listed the answer PSHAW alongside the Connections solution.

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