NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Friday, August 9 (Contest #425)
Here’s the final Connections puzzle of the week… and the 425th since it started over a year ago. Give it a try, see if you can solve it, use my hints if you can’t.
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 #425) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- HORROR
- CHEERLEADER
- PUNK
- JOCK
- Missing
- GOTH
- GOLF
- GLAM
- CHAMPION
- ELSEWHERE
- VALUE
- EXPONENT
- ROAD
- METAL
- PROPULSION
- ABSENT
NYT Connections Today (Contest #425) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Not here
- Vegetables: Fan
- Blue: Turn it up loud
- Purple: [Word for a surprise] 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 #425) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: NOT PRESENT
- GREEN: SUPPORTER
- BLUE: ROCK GENRES
- PURPLE: SHOCK ___
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #425) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #425, are…
- YELLOW: NOT PRESENT ABSENT, ELSEWHERE, DISAPPEARED, MIA
- GREEN: SUPPORTER ADVOCATE, CHAMPION, CHEERLEADER, EXPONENT
- BLUE: ROCK GENRES GLAM, GOTH, METAL, PUNK
- PURPLE: SHOCK ___ HORROR, JOCK, VALUE, GOLF
- My rating: Simple
- My score: 1 error
I was a bit careless today, lulled into a false sense of security by finishing green and yellow very quickly at the start of the game and then being faced with what looked like two easier groups. And they were – but for some reason I played [SHOCK] JOCK, VALUE, HORROR and… METAL? I have no idea why I thought SHOCK METAL was a thing, but I quickly corrected my mistake with WAVE and finished this Connections puzzle again in no more than a few minutes. I have a feeling there’s a harder Connections game coming soon… right?
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Thursday, August 8, Contest #424)
- YELLOW: SPLASHING WAYS TO ENTER A POOL BACKFLIP, BELLYFLOP, CANON BALL, POCKET KNIFE
- GREEN: REPEAT ECHO, PARROT, QUOTE, REPEAT
- BLUE: MAIN STAFF ANCHOR, BACKBONE, CORNERSTONE, PILLAR
- PURPLE: ___ RADIO HAM, PIRATE, SATELLITE, TALK
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.
