Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on July 11 for puzzle #761 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3.

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words.