NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Wednesday, August 21 (Contest #437)
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 #437) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- BALLOON
- BAR
- CAKE
- to effervesce
- CAKE
- CALL
- BAND
- JAS
- SLING
- LUBRICATE
- IRON
- LINE
- FLOATING
- PICKLES
- PLASTER
- BASKETBALL
NYT Connections Today (Contest #437) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Hit it on top
- Vegetables: Pump it up
- Blue: Data Views
- Purple: Alcoholic mixes
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 #437) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: COVERED WITH A THICK LAYER
- GREEN: THINGS THAT ARE INFLATE BALLOON, BASKETBALL, DRIVE FORCE, BAND
- BLUE: TYPES OF GRAPHS
- PURPLE: CLASSIC COCKTAIL TYPES FIZZ, PUNCH, SLING, SOUR
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #437) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #437, are…
- 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
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: Failure
This was, rather embarrassingly, a second Connections failure in just a few days for me. It’s a tough one, I think, but not impossible.
That said, I felt like I was at a disadvantage compared to some people. FLOATIE is a term I’ve never heard before, and I think it’s a popular term in the US that isn’t used in the UK where I’m from. Also, TIRE is spelled TYRE in the UK, so I just saw that as “getting tired” rather than “the thing that goes on wheels”) and I didn’t think about combining it with other inflatables.
But still I should have fixed this, especially considering I got the blue group, but this was clearly another off day for me. I hope it was better for you.
How was your day? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Tuesday, August 20, Contest #436)
- YELLOW: WIND CURRENTS BLOW, DRAFT, FLAME, PUFF
- GREEN: TURN CRANK, REEL, TURN, WINDING
- BLUE: ZODIAC SYMBOLS BULL, CRAB, LION, ARIES
- PURPLE: DR. SEUSS TITLE FIGURES CAT, GRINCH, DOLL, TURTLE
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.
