NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, September 1 (Contest #448)
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 #448) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- CHARCOAL
- HAMMER
- GOLF BAG
- GRILL
- TOOL BOX
- RAVEN
- LIMOUSINE
- BEAM
- BROWN
- DRUM
- Saber
- SIGN
- ANVIL
- FILM SET
- TO SEARCH
- CHANNEL
NYT Connections Today (Contest #448) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Cooking on the stove?
- Vegetables: Auditory areas
- Blue: Paint it…
- Purple: Everything can contain something/someone that will take you somewhere
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 #448) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TO COOK IN A PAN, BURN, GRILL, SCRUB
- GREEN: PARTS OF THE EAR
- BLUE: SHADES OF BLACK
- PURPLE: WHERE TO FIND A “DRIVER”
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #448) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #448, are…
- YELLOW: COOKING IN A PAN BROWN, BURN, GRILL, SEASON
- GREEN: PARTS OF THE EAR ANVIL, CHANNEL, DRUM, HAMMER
- BLUE: SHADES OF BLACK CHARCOAL, JET, RAVEN, SABLE
- PURPLE: WHERE TO FIND A “DRIVER” GOLF BAG, LIMOUSINE, FILM SET, TOOL BOX
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Failure
Connections is ultimately a game of knowledge, and I’m just going to have to accept that I don’t have enough of it. Or maybe not enough of the kind the NYT values. It’s a bit of an anomaly, because I solve Wordle, Quordle, and Strands every day (or almost every day in the case of the latter two), and I’m generally pretty good at quizzes. But this… this is ridiculous. It’s my eighth failure in 15 games, and my fourth in a row, which is unprecedented for me and possibly the world. I might be the world’s biggest loser right now.
The argument against that – and the one I cling to – is that you could argue that some of this knowledge is arcane, unnecessary and really quite arbitrary. For example, green today, ‘Parts of the ear’: I knew CANAL and DRUM, but ANVIL and HAMMER… no. And why would I need to know that? Or that DRIVER is something you would find in a TOOLBOX or on a FILM SET? Again, no idea.
Okay, I’ll stick with that for now. The problem is the NYT’s Connections puzzle, not me. Let’s leave it at that.
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Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Saturday, August 31, Contest #447)
- YELLOW: NEWSPAPER CAMPAIGN
- GREEN: TREE CHARACTERISTICS
- BLUE: TYPES OF SALAD CHEF, GARDEN, GREEK, WEDGE
- PURPLE: SEEN ON THE BACK OF US COINS EAGLE, MONTICELLO, SHIELD, TORCH
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.
