NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Friday, August 23 (Contest #439)
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 #439) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- TIE
- TANNING
- FAN
- DEER
- ACCOUNT
- FINISH
- MONITOR
- POWDERED
- BOA
- SCREEN
- CREAM
- TO KNOW THEMSELVES
- TERMINAL
- CORSET
- DISPLAY
- GLOVES
NYT Connections Today (Contest #439) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Digital viewing thing
- Vegetables: Striking outfit items
- Blue: To colour
- Purple: Sounds like a native language
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 #439) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: VISUAL INTERFACE
- GREEN: BURLESQUE CLOTHING
- BLUE: BEIGE SHADES
- PURPLE: LANGUAGE HOMOPHONES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #439) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #439, are…
- YELLOW: VISUAL INTERFACE DISPLAY, MONITOR, SCREEN, TERMINAL
- GREEN: BURLESQUE WEAR BOA, CORSET, FAN, GLOVES
- BLUE: BEIGE SHADES BLUE, CREAM, SERIES, BROWN
- PURPLE: LANGUAGE HOMOPHONES BASK, CHECK, FINISH, STRIK
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: Failure
Okay, I’m done with this stupid game. That’s it, over*. This is my third fail in six days, and it’s just too hard to be funny. How do I know BUFF is a shade of beige? I’ve never heard that before. And honestly, I don’t care. Also, why is FAN part of BURLESQUE WEAR? Are you wearing a fan?
Or, on the other hand, I should just hang my head and admit that my Connections game has been gone for the past few days, and it’s all my fault. The frustrating thing is that I solved yellow, the visual interfaces, after just a few seconds. And looking at the board, it shouldn’t have been that hard to solve two more groups. But for whatever reason, it was.
(*I’ll be back tomorrow of course. But I hate Connections right now.)
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Thursday, August 22, Contest #438)
- YELLOW: CLASSIC CINEMA EQUIPMENT PROJECTOR, COIL, SCREEN, SPEAKER
- GREEN: TIER DECK, FLOOR, LEVEL, FLOOR
- BLUE: NEWSPAPER NAMES GLOBE, MIRROR, POST, SUN
- PURPLE: FUNNY VERBS EGG, MOON, STRIPE, TOILET PAPER
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.
