NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Saturday, August 10 (Contest #426)
It’s the weekend and it’s time to play Connections again. Below are hints 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 #426) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- STRAWBERRY
- MILK
- OFFICE
- WALK
- BLOND
- ROSE
- WORK
- TEAM
- JOBS
- FUNCTION
- EDGE
- MARS
- WINDOWS
- SHAME
- DEVIL
- OPERATE
NYT Connections Today (Contest #426) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: All one color
- Vegetables: Do what it has to do
- Blue: No Apple
- Purple: The story of their lives
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 #426) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE RED
- GREEN: IN COMMITTEE
- BLUE: MICROSOFT PRODUCTS
- PURPLE: BIOPICS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #426) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #426, are…
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE RED DEVIL, MARS, ROSE, STRAWBERRY
- GREEN: IN COMMITTEE FUNCTION, OPERATE, RUN, WORK
- BLUE: MICROSOFT PRODUCTS EDGE, OFFICE, TEAMS, WINDOWS
- PURPLE: BIOPICS BLONDE, JOBS, MILK, VICE
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
This was a more difficult edition of Connections, with one group I would never have solved otherwise, and a few others that took me a long time to figure out.
Purple, the ‘biopics’ group, was the one I would never have gotten – in hindsight I’ve heard a few of them but the connection between them just wouldn’t have occurred to me. Luckily I figured out the others but it took me a while to see that MARS, ROSE, STRAWBERRY and DEVIL are all ‘things that are red’. This was the yellow group – so supposedly the easiest – but for some reason my brain hadn’t put them together until I’d been staring at the board for about 5 minutes!
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Friday, August 9, Contest #425)
- 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
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.
