NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Saturday, August 17 (Contest #433)
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 #433) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- TONGUE
- BAND
- FARM
- NECK
- FRENCH
- LANGUAGE
- DRESSING
- HOUSE
- BANDAGE
- CRAFTSMAN
- TO MAKE
- PAIR OF SCISSORS
- SPEECH
- KISS
- PRAIRIE
- DIALECT
NYT Connections Today (Contest #433) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: What are you saying?
- Vegetables: Hanging out
- Blue: First aid kit
- Purple: Homes
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 #433) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SPOKEN COMMUNICATION
- GREEN: CANOODLE
- BLUE: FIRST AID KIT ITEMS
- PURPLE: HOUSE STYLES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #433) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #433, are…
- YELLOW: SPOKEN COMMUNICATION DIALECT, LANGUAGE, SPEECH, TONGUE
- GREEN: CANOODLE FRENCH, KISSING, KISSING, NECK
- BLUE: FIRST AID KIT ITEMS BANDAGE, BANDAGE, SCISSORS, TAPE
- PURPLE: HOUSE STYLES COTTAGE, CRAFTSMAN, PRAIRIE, RANCH
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
This is an easy one, even by recent Connections standards (which tend to lean toward the simple side of things anyway). As evidence, I solved purple, supposedly the hardest, first – although I did get some help with that. That’s because house styles were also the subject of another NYT word game, Strands, a few days ago – so CRAFTSMAN, COTTAGE, and RANCH were all still fresh in my mind. PRAIRIE wasn’t in that game, granted, but it wasn’t too much of a mental feat to figure it out with the others.
The other three groups weren’t really difficult either, so I solved those pretty quickly and saved my thoughts for another day.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Friday, August 16, Contest #432)
- YELLOW: MEH AVERAGE, FAIR, OK, SO-SO
- GREEN: ABBREVIATIONS OF THE AMERICAN STATES Hello, MA, OR, PA
- BLUE: TYPES OF BOOTS ANKLE, COWBOY, GO-GO, THIGH HIGH
- PURPLE: THINGS GOING UP AND DOWN LIFT, SUN, TIDE, YO-YO
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.
