NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Tuesday, August 27 (Contest #443)
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be tricky, so read on if you need some clues.
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 #443) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- STAIRS
- THUNDER
- BRUSH
- HEAT
- GEL
- SET
- MAGIC
- FIREWORK
- SHAVERS
- ROAR
- CAPE
- TAROT
- TREE
- HERB
- BASEBALL
- CRASH
NYT Connections Today (Contest #443) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: big sound
- Vegetables: Hot
- Blue: Cutting and styling
- Purple: Play them well
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 #443) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: EXPLOSIVE SOUND
- GREEN: CHILI PEPPER QUALITY
- BLUE: CLASSIC HAIRDRESSING EQUIPMENT
- PURPLE: TYPES OF CARDS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #443) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #443, are…
- YELLOW: EXPLOSIVE SOUND BOOM, CRASH, ROAR, THUNDER
- GREEN: CHILI PEPPER QUALITY FIRE, HEAT, SHOVEL, HERBS
- BLUE: CLASSIC HAIRDRESSING EQUIPMENT BRUSH, CAPE, CLIPPER, GEL
- PURPLE: TYPES OF CARDS BASEBALL, MAGIC, SET, TAROT
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: 3 mistakes
Phew! I narrowly avoided yet another Connections fail today – but that was mostly down to luck. Once again, I lost my bet on red herrings – I thought there might be a basketball connection (HEAT, THUNDER, CLIPPERS, MAGIC) but was wrong, or that it had something to do with wizards/witches (CAPE, MAGIC, TAROT? FIRE??) but was (correctly) even more wrong. And then I finally bet on a hairdressing one (with BRUSH, CLIPPERS, GEL and, er, SET) and was almost right.
Now that I had no more chances, I had to guess them all right at once and when I looked around I saw the yellow group ‘Explosive sound’. Back at the barbershops I added CAPE and got blue, then put four hot sounding words together for the group Chilipeper. It was a close call, but I figured it out.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Monday, August 26, Contest #442)
- YELLOW: OFFICIAL SANCTION APPROVAL, BLESSING, PERMISSION, SUPPORT
- GREEN: TORUS-SHAPED THINGS BAGEL, SAVIOR, BAND, WREATH
- BLUE: BAD GOLF SHOT CROCHET, POUR, CUT, CUT
- PURPLE: SHOES WITHOUT THE “ER” SOUND BREAD, SLIP, SNEAK, WADING
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.
