NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Monday, August 26 (Contest #442)
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 #442) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- STICK
- SNEAK
- BAND
- SUPPORT
- BAGEL
- SLIP
- BREAD
- TOUCH
- BLESSING
- WADING
- LIFE SAVER
- CONSENT
- LAUREL WREATH
- HOOK
- APPROVAL
- SHAFT
NYT Connections Today (Contest #442) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Management Approval
- Vegetables: Donut shape
- Blue: Deviant hit
- Purple: Wear them on your feet, but something is missing
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 #442) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: OFFICIAL SANCTION
- GREEN: TORUS-SHAPED THINGS
- BLUE: BAD GOLF SHOT
- PURPLE: SHOES WITHOUT THE “ER” SOUND
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #442) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #442, are…
- YELLOW: OFFICIAL SANCTION APPROVAL, BLESSING, PERMISSION, SUPPORT
- GREEN: TORUS-SHAPED THINGS BAGEL, SAVIOR, BAND, WREATH
- BLUE: BAD GOLF SHOT CROCHET, POUR, CUT, CUT
- PURPLE: SHOES WITHOUT THE “ER” SOUND BREAD, SLIP, SNEAK, WADING
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Failure
Bah! Another failure for me today – four in just over a week. My game is completely gone. I’m like a golfer with the yips – and it just so happens that it was golf that did me in today.
I solved yellow and green without too much trouble, leaving me with eight words to collect. And I correctly saw that one of the remaining groups was almost certainly a ‘bad golf shots’ compound – because I had HOOK, SLICE and SHANK. But I’ve never heard WHIFF used in that context (I’m not a golfer) and guessed every other answer except the real one, which was another defeat.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Sunday, August 25, Contest #441)
- YELLOW: HOPPING CRAZY BOILING, SMOKING, ALIVE, STEAMING
- GREEN: STATUS POSITION, ARRANGEMENT, STATE, STATION
- BLUE: WORDS THAT FORM THE ACRONYM “HVAC” AIR CONDITIONING, HEATING, VENTILATION
- PURPLE: ACTIVITIES RELATED TO FOLDING BAKING, WASHING, ORIGAMI, POKER
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.
