NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Wednesday, August 7 (Contest #423)
It’s been a while since we’ve had a really hard Connections puzzle… and that hasn’t changed today. Of course, everyone’s gaming experience is different, so read on if you need some hints.
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 #423) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- X-RAY
- BYTE
- RADIO
- EXCERCISE
- A DISHWASHER
- RAM
- MICROWAVE
- SERVER
- COMEDIAN
- COOK
- STUFF
- HOST
- TO TAKE
- VISIBLE
- REIN
- JAM
NYT Connections Today (Contest #423) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Pumpkin in it
- Vegetable: As in ‘The Bear’
- Blue: Radiations
- Purple: They all have something that is synonymous with ‘a small amount’
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 #423) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CRAM
- GREEN: RESTAURANT JOBS
- BLUE: ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH BITS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #423) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #423, are…
- 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
- My score: Simple
- My score: Perfect
It’s always such a relief to solve the blue group early on, because I know I won’t fail anytime soon once I have that. Yellow and green are usually pretty easy, so once blue is out of the way, I don’t have to worry about purple.
Today, blue was a no-brainer for a physics nerd like me – the second I saw X-RAY and RADIO in the same game, I was pretty sure they were going to go together, and MICROWAVE was another obvious choice. VISIBLE might have fooled a few people, but all those hours I’d spent reading about telescopes and quantum physics were finally paying off.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Tuesday, August 6, Contest #422)
- YELLOW: SOFT WHITE THINGS CLOUD, COTTON BALL, DANDELION, SHEEP
- GREEN: ONE IN A RESEARCH STUDY SAMPLE PAPER, PARTICIPANT, SUBJECT, VOLUNTEER
- BLUE: TAKE THE PROBLEM DISAPPROVE, SPIRIT, OBJECTION, PROTEST
- PURPLE: ___HORN BULL, MIST, MATTER, SHOE
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.
