NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Thursday, August 15 (Contest #431)
It’s time to tackle Thursday’s Connections puzzle from the NYT. This is a fairly tricky puzzle, so read on for my hints.
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 #431) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- AGREEMENT
- TELEPHONE
- KNOB
- REACH
- SIERRA
- FILTHY
- MATE
- FRIEND
- REACH
- ACCOUNT
- NATTY
- DOMAIN
- ADDITION
- STELLA
- SCOPE
- PARTNER
NYT Connections Today (Contest #431) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: As far as it goes
- Vegetables: Goes together
- Blue: Drink
- Purple: [word that means salary] empty
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 #431) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: WIDTH
- GREEN: OTHER HALF
- BLUE: BEERS, FAMILY
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “PAY”
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #431) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #431, are…
- YELLOW: WIDTH SCOPE, RANGE, RANGE, SCOPE
- GREEN: OTHER HALF COMPLEMENT, MATCH, SIZE, PARTNER
- BLUE: BEERS, FAMILY BUD, NATTY, SIERRA, STELLA
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “PAY” CONTROL, DIRTY, FRIEND, PHONE
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 error
Deception is a constant threat in Connections, which is one reason I always shuffle the answers when I start the game. The NYT often puts words together at the beginning so they seem like they belong together, but they don’t.
Today I guessed MATE, BUD, PAL, PARTNER as a group and was quite shocked when they didn’t form one answer. But coincidentally MATE and PARTNER were in the ‘Other half’ group instead (with COMPLEMENT and MATCH), while BUD went into ‘Beers’ and PAL went into the final ‘Words after “Pay”‘ group.
Still, you’re allowed three mistakes in Connections (the fourth is a loss), so I still had plenty of guesses left to solve this relatively tricky part of the game. I don’t think I would have gotten the blue group if it hadn’t been standard – I’ve never heard of NATTY or SIERRA as beers – but the purple wasn’t as bad as it sometimes is, so I got there eventually.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Wednesday, August 14, Contest #430)
- 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
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.
