NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, August 18 (Contest #434)
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 #434) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- NERD
- GRUMPS
- TO SLEEP
- WHAT IF
- CONSULTATION
- DOING
- AWESOME
- RUN
- SLEEP
- KISS
- SUPPOSE
- ALARM
- O’CLOCK
- MAYBE
- SET TIME
- CHAMPION
NYT Connections Today (Contest #434) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Alarm clock
- Vegetables: This could happen
- Blue: Sweet treats
- Purple: Seven Dwarf
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 #434) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: ALARM BUTTONS
- GREEN: “HERE’S A THOUGHT…”
- BLUE: CANDY PIECES
- PURPLE: SEVEN DWARFS MINUS LAST LETTER
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #434) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #434, are…
- YELLOW: ALARM BUTTONS SET ALARM, HOUR, SNOOZE, TIME
- GREEN: “HERE’S A THOUGHT…” MAYBE, IMAGINE, SUPPOSE, WHAT IF
- BLUE: CANDY PIECES KISS, NERD, RUNT, WOPPER
- PURPLE: SEVEN DWARFS MINUS LAST LETTER DO, DOPE, GRUMP, SLEEP
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: Failure
It’s been ages since I haven’t solved a Connections puzzle, but that happened to me today – and I suspect it could happen to others too. That said, the blue group, CANDY PIECES, might be a lot easier to solve if you’re in the US. I live in the UK and have never heard of WHOPPER or RUNT in that context. I have heard of NERDs and KISSes, but neither are particularly common here and the connection never occurred to me.
As for purple, the SEVEN DWARFS MINUS LAST LETTER, I can only compliment the NYT on a clever puzzle that I could have solved myself, but which was simply too clever for me.
How did it go today? Send me an email and let me know.
Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Saturday, August 17, Contest #433)
- 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
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.
