NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Saturday, August 24 (Contest #440)
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 #440) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- NATIONAL
- CONVERSATION
- SLIP
- LATIN
- JARGON
- TO STEAL
- BUDGET
- ON THE TIP TOE
- WHISPER
- ENVIRONMENT
- PLEADING
- ENTERPRISE
- CRAWL
- SPECULATION
- ECONOMIC
- RUMBLING
NYT Connections Today (Contest #440) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Could have been said
- Vegetables: Walk like a mouse
- Blue: Rented wheels
- Purple: Misleading is another
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 #440) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: HEARSAID
- GREEN: MOVE SILENTLY
- BLUE: CAR RENTAL COMPANIES
- PURPLE: ENDING WITH CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #440) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #440, are…
- YELLOW: VISUAL INTERFACE DISPLAY, MONITOR, SCREEN, TERMINAL
- GREEN: BURLESQUE WEAR BOA, CORSET, FAN, GLOVES
- BLUE: BEIGE SHADES BLUE, CREAM, SERIES, BROWN
- PURPLE: LANGUAGE HOMOPHONES BASK, CHECK, FINISH, STRIK
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 error
I’m determined to get my Connections form back after three failures in a week, so I’ve been paying extra attention to today’s game. And that’s a good thing – because it’s another potentially tough one.
I was at a disadvantage to some players from the start, because the blue group, CAR RENTAL COMPANIES, contains companies that to my knowledge do not operate outside of the United States, meaning that those of us who are not from the US might have some difficulty. I might have guessed anyway, if one of them was another global company, but as it was, I left that group until the end and solved it by default.
That I was able to do this was largely due to the fact that I had solved the hardest purple group early on, which I was very happy about; this was a clever compound where the end of the word was a chemical element – for example LEAD in PLEAD or TIN in LATIN – but I was looking for those kinds of NYT tricks and had figured it out straight away. Phew!
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Friday, August 23, Contest #439)
- YELLOW: VISUAL INTERFACE DISPLAY, MONITOR, SCREEN, TERMINAL
- GREEN: BURLESQUE WEAR BOA, CORSET, FAN, GLOVES
- BLUE: BEIGE SHADES BLUE, CREAM, SERIES, BROWN
- PURPLE: LANGUAGE HOMOPHONES BASK, CHECK, FINISH, STRIK
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.
