NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Thursday, August 29 (Contest #445)
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 #445) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- PLAYER
- GAMBLING
- BROWN
- YOUNG
- COUNT
- SMIT
- NOBLE
- DUKE
- UPRIGHT
- TO CONSIDER
- BIG
- RIGHT
- ELECTRONIC
- GREETING
- HOWARD
- JOHNSON
NYT Connections Today (Contest #445) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: They have keys
- Vegetables: Think about
- Blue: Places of learning
- Purple: Something & something
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 #445) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TYPES OF PIANOS
- GREEN: DEEM
- BLUE: AMERICAN COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES
- PURPLE: SECOND NAMES IN COMPANIES WITH AMPERSANDS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #445) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #445, are…
- YELLOW: TYPES OF PIANOS ELECTRONIC, LARGE, PLAYER, UPRIGHT
- GREEN: DEEM CONSIDER, COUNT, JUDGE, CONSIDER
- BLUE: AMERICAN COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES BROWN, DUKE, HOWARD, SMITH
- PURPLE: SECOND NAMES IN COMPANIES WITH AMPERSANDS GAMBLE, JOHNSON, NOBLE, JONG
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: Failure
Yeah, okay, this was just too hard for me. That’s my fifth Connections fail in the last 12 days, which either implies I’m not that good at this, or that this game has gotten harder lately. I don’t really have any complaints about it, except that the blue “universities” group is really, really hard for non-US players – which I’m not. I spotted BROWN and DUKE, but I didn’t know any other options and just gambled blindly until I lost.
Purple was even harder. Again I saw some options in JOHNSON (& Johnson) and (Proctor &) GAMBLE, but NOBLE and YOUNG… no chance. I now realize that NOBLE must be related to BARNES &, but I am still none the wiser about YOUNG.
To make matters worse, even yellow and green were pretty tough. I have yet to lose a Wordle in almost 1000 games, but Connections is a whole different story – this game is hardcore.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Wednesday, August 28, Contest #444)
- YELLOW: PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT MONKEY BARS, SLIDE, SWING, WIP
- GREEN: FOUND AT THE END OF A STRING/CORD Swing, tea bag, rope ball, yo-yo
- BLUE: DESCRIBED AS DRY DESERT, HUMOR, MARTINI, WHOLEWHOLEWHOLE
- PURPLE: BABY ___ BLUES, BOOMER, STEPS, TEETH
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.
