NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Monday, August 12 (Contest #428)
Monday’s Connections is here – and so are my hints for it. Read on if you need them.
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 #428) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- BOWIE
- HEAD
- FULL
- BUTTER
- PIPE
- THRONE
- MERCURY
- KING
- QUEEN
- BUTTERFLY
- JOHN
- GOLD
- BUTCHER
- TWIN
- TIN
- CAN
NYT Connections Today (Contest #428) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Heavy?
- Vegetables: Sleep well
- Blue: A very private place
- Purple: Knives
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 #428) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: METAL ELEMENTS
- GREEN: MATTRESS SIZES
- BLUE: HOSE FOR TOILET
- PURPLE: TYPES OF KNIVES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #428) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #428, are…
- YELLOW: METAL ELEMENTS GOLD, LEAD, MERCURY, TIN
- GREEN: MATTRESS SIZES FULL, KING, QUEEN, TWIN
- BLUE: HOSE FOR TOILET CAN, HEAD, JOHN, THRONE
- PURPLE: TYPES OF KNIVES BOWIE, BUTCHER, BUTTERFLY
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
I’m no expert on knives, mattresses, metals, or, er, toilets, but all the answers in today’s Connections are so clear that I breezed through them. And I suspect many others will too.
I immediately saw green – KING, QUEEN, TWIN – but I wasn’t sure if FULL was a mattress type, so I left that alone and looked elsewhere. Then I saw BOWIE, and apart from David Bowie the only connection I could think of was knife. Looking around I saw BUTCHER, BUTTER, and BUTTERFLY, and I solved purple immediately. The fact that that was the hardest says everything about how easy this one was, and I quickly moved through the other groups, solving the mattress by default, but I realized long ago that it was absolutely correct.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Sunday, August 11, Contest #427)
- YELLOW: BIG BOAT BARGE, VESSEL, SHIP, VESSEL
- GREEN: ALWAYS GREAT BEST, CHAMPION, GOAT, LEGEND
- BLUE: REGARDING ABOUT, CONCERNING, ON, TO
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF BODY FEATURES HARE, ME, MUSSEL, MARINE
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.
