NYT Connections — July 24, 2026

Today's board mixes chatty verbs, a baseball rundown, memory triggers, and a batch of words that sound like something else entirely once you say them out loud.

The easiest set is all about running your mouth — think rambling, droning on, yakking away endlessly.

One set lines up exactly with what can happen when you step up to the plate in baseball — nothing fancy, just batting results.

Another set is about jogging your brain — things that can nudge a memory loose or wake up your recall, not your legs.

The purple group is the trap: none of these words mean what they look like. Say each one aloud and picture a member of the clergy — a horse's gait sounds like a synagogue singer, a deep fryer sounds like a monk, a woolly pack animal sounds like a Buddhist monk's title, and "none" sounds like a convent sister. Watch out — CANTER can trick you into a "movement" group with JOG and WALK, and JOG itself can trick you into thinking "exercise" instead of "memory."