NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Friday, August 16 (Contest #432)
Here’s the final Connections hint page of the week, complete with the answers if you need them and my comments on the game.
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 #432) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- OK
- COWBOY
- SINGLE
- SUN
- HI
- TIDE
- JOJO
- MA
- HONESTLY
- GO-GO
- AVERAGE
- LIFT
- PA
- So-So
- OR
- THIGH HIGH
NYT Connections Today (Contest #432) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Standard
- Vegetables: Four out of 50
- Blue: High shoes
- Purple: Rise and fall
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 #432) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MEH
- GREEN: ABBREVIATIONS OF THE AMERICAN STATES
- BLUE: TYPES OF BOOTS
- PURPLE: THINGS GOING UP AND DOWN
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #432) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #432, are…
- YELLOW: MEH AVERAGE, FAIR, OK, SO-SO
- GREEN: ABBREVIATIONS OF THE AMERICAN STATES Hello, MA, OR, PA
- BLUE: TYPES OF BOOTS ANKLE, COWBOY, GO-GO, THIGH HIGH
- PURPLE: THINGS GOING UP AND DOWN LIFT, SUN, TIDE, YO-YO
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
I always find short Connections answers harder to group than longer ones, probably because there are just more ways to put them together. They often work as prefixes or suffixes, for example; HI can be combined with many other words very easily.
My strategy in these situations is to not rush things. Look for an obvious connection that doesn’t necessarily involve one of those short words, and see what happens. Today I got the blue “Types of Boots” group first, specifically THIGH-HIGH as a word that really couldn’t mean anything else. Then the “Meh” group, which OK took out of circulation. At that point, the rest of those short words quickly clustered into American states, leaving only the purple “Up and Down” group to solve by default (although I did solve it mentally first).
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Thursday, August 15, Contest #431)
- 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
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.
