NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, August 11 (Contest #427)
I also found Sunday’s Connections to be a pretty easy story, but if you disagree, scroll down for my tips.
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 #427) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- CHAMPION
- I
- ON
- SHIP
- BEST
- CRAFT
- MUSSEL
- GOAT
- HARE
- LEGEND
- ABOUT
- MARINE
- SHIPPING VESSEL
- NASTY
- RE
- SHIP
NYT Connections Today (Contest #427) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: King of the seas
- Vegetables: Superstar
- Blue: Regarding a topic
- Purple: Sounds like a body part
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 #427) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: BIG BOAT
- GREEN: ALWAYS GREAT
- BLUE: REGARDING
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF BODY FEATURES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #427) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #427, are…
- 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
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
Either it was a really easy week in Connections or I was in a groove. I suspect the former more than the latter, since I’m not really a Wordle expert. But in Connections it was easy.
Today’s puzzle has another tricky group, as is usually the case, in the form of purple. This is a homophone type, which can be difficult to identify, but is usually not too bad to solve once you figure out what’s going on. However, if you’re like me, you don’t need to solve it anyway, because the other three were all very simple synonyms. I’m almost hoping for a really hard one now!
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Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Saturday, August 10, Contest #426)
- 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
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.
