NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Friday, August 2 (Contest #418)
Your Friday Connections puzzle is here from the NYT – which means your Friday Connections clues are here too. Good luck.
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 #418) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- GIFT
- SAMPLE
- JEALOUS
- ATTEMPT
- TAX
- TO BLEND
- lush
- POSSESSIVE
- STRAIGHT AWAY
- TEST
- SCRATCH
- NAUSEOUS
- TURN
- IRREGULAR
- ECOLOGICAL
- DEFORMATION
NYT Connections Today (Contest #418) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Putting you under pressure
- Vegetable: Decks are attractive
- Blue: All about words
- Purple: Related to a specific color
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 #418) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: STRETCHING, AS SOMEONE’S PATIENCE
- GREEN: THINGS A DJ DOES
- BLUE: ADJECTIVES USED IN GRAMMAR
- PURPLE: WHAT “GREEN” CAN MEAN
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #418) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #418, are…
- YELLOW: STRETCHING, AS SOMEONE’S PATIENCE VOLTAGE, LOAD, TESTING, TRYING
- GREEN: THINGS A DJ DOES MIXING, SAMPLING, SCRATCHING, TURNING
- BLUE: ADJECTIVES USED IN GRAMMAR DIRECT, IRREGULAR, POSSESSIVE, PRESENT
- PURPLE: WHAT “GREEN” CAN MEAN ECOLOGICAL, JEALOUS, LUSH, NAUSEOUS
- My score: Moderate
- My score: 1 error
I spent most of today’s game alternately puzzling over what one of the groups might be – literally one of them – and then facepalming at their obvious nature when I finally saw them. The sheer amount of misdirection the NYT has cunningly shoehorned into the game didn’t help matters – OWNERS and JEALOUS could easily have gone together, as could SAMPLE and TEST and TRY (something scientific, perhaps?), or SPIN and TEST and TRY (as in ‘give it a try’).
None of those groups were real groups, though. I ended up getting the grammar assignment—as you’d hope, given my career choice—and then the DJ assignment. I also ended up solving the purple one, even though I would have gotten it anyway by then. So, a tough but satisfying episode of Connections all in all.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Thursday, August 1, Contest #417)
- YELLOW: PROMOTE HYPE, MARKET, PITCH, SELL
- GREEN: THROW THROW, THROW, Throw, Throw
- BLUE: BOOKSTORE SECTIONS FICTION, HUMOR, ROMANCE, TRAVEL
- PURPLE: ___ SOCKS ANKLE, CREW, SWEAT, TUBE
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.
