NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Friday, August 30 (Contest #446)
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 #446) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- GOLD
- CUBE
- TEMPLE
- FENCE
- MACHINE
- BOX
- SEQUINS
- CREAM
- DIAMOND
- LIGHTHOUSE
- ROW
- PYRAMID
- TO DIVE
- STORM
- GLITTER
- GARDENS
NYT Connections Today (Contest #446) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Light spreaders
- Vegetables: What people do at certain sporting events
- Blue: Ancient wonders
- Purple: [cold thing] 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 #446) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Shiny things
- GREEN: JOIN THE SUMMER OLYMPIC EVENTS
- BLUE: WORLD WONDERS
- PURPLE: ICE, BLOCK, MACHINE, STORM
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #446) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #446, are…
- YELLOW: Shiny things DIAMOND, GLITTER, GOLD, SEQUINS
- GREEN: JOIN THE SUMMER OLYMPIC EVENTS BOX, DIVE, GATE, ROW
- BLUE: WORLD WONDERS GARDENS, LIGHTHOUSE, PYRAMID, TEMPLE
- PURPLE: ICE ___ CREAM, CUBE, MACHINE, STORM
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Failure
Guess what? That’s right – it’s another FAIL. Another one! This is getting ridiculous. I’m starting to get to the point where I can’t write this column anymore because no one will trust anything I say. Why should you trust my guidance when I repeatedly turn out to be a LOSER? I’ll keep going, but there are only so many failures I can tolerate without my self-confidence being completely destroyed by this ordeal.
Is it that hard today? Well, I described it as ‘moderate’ because in retrospect it is solvable. The one who killed me was ICE [BLANK]partly because it wouldn’t accept ICE BOX, although that is a thing. So I guessed three times with different combinations of that plus CUBE, MACHINE, STORM and CREAM, but didn’t get the right four.
Other than that I was happy to get the blue group of ‘ancient wonders’, but I’m bummed I didn’t notice that FENCE, BOX, ROW and DIVE are all Olympic activities. Oh well, the Olympics were weeks ago now, I had forgotten all about that…
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Thursday, August 29, Contest #445)
- YELLOW: TYPES OF PIANOS ELECTRONIC, LARGE, PLAYER, UPRIGHT
- GREEN: DEEM CONSIDER, COUNT, JUDGE, CONSIDER
- BLUE: AMERICAN COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES BROWN, DUKE, HOWARD, SMITH
- PURPLE: SECOND NAMES IN COMPANIES WITH AMPERSANDS GAMBLE, JOHNSON, NOBLE, JONG
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.
