NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Thursday, August 8 (Contest #424)
Thursday’s Connections puzzle is also a pretty easy one – and I seem to be saying that a lot lately. But if you still need some hints, read on…
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 #424) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- CONVERSATION
- PIRATE
- PILLAR
- PARROT
- HAM
- QUOTE
- CANNONBALL
- ANCHOR
- SATELLITE
- ECHO
- CORNERSTONE
- POCKET KNIFE
- BACKFLIP
- SPINE
- BELLY FLOPPING
- TO REPEAT
NYT Connections Today (Contest #424) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Splash into the water!
- Vegetable: Say it again
- Blue: Support
- Purple: Blank [broadcast device]
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 #424) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SPLASHING WAYS TO ENTER A POOL
- GREEN: REPEAT
- BLUE: MAIN STAFF
- PURPLE: ___ RADIO
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #424) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #424, are…
- YELLOW: SPLASHING WAYS TO ENTER A POOL BACKFLIP, BELLYFLOP, CANON BALL, POCKET KNIFE
- GREEN: REPEAT ECHO, PARROT, QUOTE, REPEAT
- BLUE: MAIN STAFF ANCHOR, BACKBONE, CORNERSTONE, PILLAR
- PURPLE: ___ RADIO HAM, PIRATE, SATELLITE, TALK
- My score: Simple
- My score: Perfect
Connections have been really easy lately, haven’t they? Or maybe I just got better at it, after 400 games? Or maybe I just got lucky… Either way, I solved it in a blazing fast pace, and in almost the ‘wrong’ order, with purple being the first. Not that purple was a particularly difficult one today; yes, it was a [blank] something to answer, but the radio related words were all pretty obvious, with HAM and PIRATE jumping out at me. Once that was out of the way, the others quickly fell into place.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Wednesday, August 7, Contest #423)
- YELLOW: CRAM JAM, PACK, RAM, STUFF
- GREEN: RESTAURANT JOBS COOK, DISHWASHER, HOSTESS, SERVER
- BLUE: ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM MICROWAVES, RADIO, VISIBLE, X-RAY
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH BITS BRIDLE, BYTE, COMEDIAN, DRILL
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.
