NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Tuesday, August 13 (Contest #429)
Tuesday’s Connections are a little more difficult than some recent examples, so read on if you need some tips.
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 #429) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- MARKED
- SAID
- SPEECH
- WHEEL
- CLEARLY
- LEVER
- DOORMAN
- PRONOUNCED
- DESIGNATION
- ROUGH
- REMARKABLE
- NAME
- TOLD
- NICKNAME
- CURRENT
- PRONOUNCED
NYT Connections Today (Contest #429) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Pronounced
- Vegetables: Kind of name
- Blue: Easy to see
- Purple: Empty [word for dwelling]
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 #429) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MENTIONED
- GREEN: NICKNAME
- BLUE: CLEAR
- PURPLE: ___HOUSE (WHICH ARE NOT HOUSES)
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #429) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #429, are…
- YELLOW: MENTIONED SAID, SPOKE, TOLD, SPREAD OUT
- GREEN: NICKNAME NAME, HANDLE, NAME, SOBRIQUET
- BLUE: CLEAR CLEAR, MARKED, PRONOUNCED, STRIKING
- PURPLE: ___HOUSE (WHICH ARE NOT HOUSES) PORTER, POWER, ROUGH, WHEEL
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 error
That annoying NYT deception confused me again here: how was I supposed to know that yellow included ‘STATED’, SAID, SPOKE, TOLD, and VOICED, but not PRONOUNCED?
Anyway, that aside, this one wasn’t that bad. I even solved purple, the ‘[blank] houses’ one, in my head, before I actually submitted it as the standard final answer. It’s always satisfying when that happens.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Monday, August 12, Contest #428)
- YELLOW: METAL ELEMENTS GOLD, LEAD, MERCURY, TIN
- GREEN: MATTRESS SIZES FULL, KING, QUEEN, TWIN
- BLUE: HOSE FOR TOILET CAN, HEAD, JOHN, THRONE
- PURPLE: TYPES OF KNIVES BOWIE, BUTCHER, BUTTERFLY
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.
