NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Thursday, August 22 (Contest #438)
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 #438) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- EGG
- STORY
- SUN
- SCREEN
- MOON
- RINSE
- STRIPE
- AFTER
- BOL
- DECK
- SPEAKER
- FLOOR
- TOILET PAPER
- MIRROR
- LEVEL
- PROJECTOR
NYT Connections Today (Contest #438) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Movie stars
- Vegetables: Vertically rising parts of a building
- Blue: Read all about it
- Purple: Words for a naughty trick
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 #438) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CLASSIC CINEMA EQUIPMENT
- GREEN: TIER
- BLUE: NEWSPAPER NAMES
- PURPLE: FUNNY VERBS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #438) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #438, are…
- YELLOW: CLASSIC CINEMA EQUIPMENT PROJECTOR, COIL, SCREEN, SPEAKER
- GREEN: TIER DECK, FLOOR, LEVEL, FLOOR
- BLUE: NEWSPAPER NAMES GLOBE, MIRROR, POST, SUN
- PURPLE: FUNNY VERBS EGG, MOON, STRIPE, TOILET PAPER
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 tip
I don’t want to complain every day about the difference between American English and British English, but it would be nice if the NYT could avoid ambiguity in that area or come up with a technical solution. For example, in today’s Connections there is the word STORY. But it is not in there as a story, but as what we in the UK would call a STOREY with an E. So the connection between the word and LEVEL, DECK and FLOOR only occurred to me late, after I had spent hours trying to think of a fourth word for that green group.
Okay, rant over – aside from that issue, today’s game isn’t all that bad, although the prank verbs purple group isn’t one I would have gotten myself. But hey, it’s been about 40 years since I was young enough to pull these kinds of pranks (and I didn’t anyway, being a shy nerd).
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Wednesday, August 21, Contest #437)
- YELLOW: COVERED WITH A THICK LAYER CAKE, COAT, BANDAGE, SMEAR
- GREEN: THINGS THAT ARE BLOWN UP BALLOON, BASKETBALL, FLOATION, TIRE
- BLUE: TYPES OF GRAPHS BAR, BUBBLE, LINE, CAKE
- PURPLE: CLASSIC COCKTAIL TYPES Fizz, hit, swing, sour
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.
