NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, August 4 (Contest #420)
Today’s Connections aren’t that bad, but below are tips 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 #420) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- SPORT
- DRINK
- BLUE
- slime
- DOWN
- LLAMA
- TIGER
- GAME
- DEEP
- CHAMPION
- SALT
- SCARY
- BENEFICIARY
- AARTVARKS
- BUDDY
- Willing
NYT Connections Today (Contest #420) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Informal word for a young person
- Vegetable: Can do
- Blue: Deja vu beginning
- Purple: Oceanic monikers
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 #420) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CHILD
- GREEN: BE IN FAVOR OF IT
- BLUE: START WITH DOUBLE LETTERS
- PURPLE: NICKNAMES FOR THE SEA, WITH “THE”
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #420) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #420, are…
- YELLOW: CHILD BUDDY, CHAMPION, SPORT, TIGER
- GREEN: BE IN FAVOR OF IT FAVORED, DOWN, PLAYFUL, WILLING
- BLUE: START WITH DOUBLE LETTERS AARDVARK, creepy, llama, slime
- PURPLE: NICKNAMES FOR THE SEA, WITH “THE” BLUE, SALT, DEEP, DRINK
- My score: Simple
- My score: Perfect
I’m not sure I’ve ever played a Connections puzzle before where the yellow group was the one I didn’t solve. Yellow is supposedly the easiest of the four, and it usually is. But today I had no idea about the KIDDO connection between TIGER, CHAMP, SPORT, and BUDDY. I just saw that SPORT, CHAMP, and BUDDY might go together, but it would never in a million years have occurred to me to add TIGER. Yes, I’ve heard that usage, but it’s so far removed from what I would tell my own kids that it just didn’t occur to me at the time.
Anyway, the good news for me was that the other three were all very accessible, even the purple “Nicknames for the Sea” group. And by the way, I’m a big fan of the “double letters at the beginning” blue group; that’s a fun one for anyone who loves language.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Saturday, August 3, Contest #419)
- YELLOW: A LITTLE BIT OF EXCITEMENT HIGH, KICK, RUSH, EXCITEMENT
- GREEN: TOLERATE CARRY, STAND, STOMACH, TAKE
- BLUE: NONSENSE BALONEY, BULL, BUNK, PENS
- PURPLE: THINGS TO CLICK ON HEELS, MOUSE, REMOTE CONTROL, TONGUE
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.
