NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Wednesday, August 14 (Contest #430)
It’s time to solve Wednesday’s Connections puzzle from the NYT. That also means it’s time for some Connections hints, if you need them.
What do you do when you’re done? Well, play some word games of course. I also have daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help with those too.
SPOILER ALERT: Below is information about today’s NYT Connections. So don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #430) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- BABY
- BUZZ
- BOO-BOO
- DAISY
- JASMINE
- MICKEY
- DANCE
- JOGI member
- CRAZY
- LURCH
- PETUNIA
- FLUB
- POPPY
- LOU
- BLUNDER
- POLLINATE
NYT Connections Today (Contest #430) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Accident
- Vegetables: Plant blooms
- Blue: Birds and __
- Purple: Baseball stars
Do you need more pointers?
We’re really getting into spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #430) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: BLUNDER
- GREEN: FLOWERS
- BLUE: THINGS BEES DO
- PURPLE: FIRST NAMES OF YANKEES LEGENDS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #430) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #430, are…
- YELLOW: BLUNDER BOO-BOO, FLUB, BLOCK, GOOF
- GREEN: FLOWERS DAISY, JASMINE, PETUNIA, POPPY
- BLUE: THINGS BEES DO BUZZ, DANCE, POLLINATE, STING
- PURPLE: FIRST NAMES OF YANKEES LEGENDS BABE, LOU, MICKEY, YOGI
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
I say above that this is easy, but I’m not sure I would have gotten the purple group, FIRST NAMES OF YANKEES LEGENDS, if I hadn’t solved the other three. But I’ll let the NYT pass on this admittedly parochial grouping, since the Yankees are a New York team.
Anyway, that aside, it all went very smoothly and the fact that the blue ‘Bees’ group recorded DANCE made me very happy. I just think it’s great that bees actually dance – and that they can communicate too!
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Tuesday, August 13, Contest #429)
- YELLOW: MENTIONED SAID, SPOKE, TOLD, SPREAD OUT
- GREEN: NICKNAME NAME, HANDLE, NAME, SOBRIQUET
- BLUE: CLEAR CLEAR, MARKED, PRONOUNCED, STRIKING
- PURPLE: ___HOUSE (WHICH ARE NOT HOUSES) PORTER, POWER, ROUGH, WHEEL
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games from the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a bit harder, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically have to solve the last question, because you can answer it by elimination. Plus, you can make a maximum of four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.
It is a bit more complicated than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that can obscure the answers.
It is free to play via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
