Here's your final page of Connections of the Week suggestions, complete with answers if you need them and my comments on the game.
What should you do once you're done? Play more word games, of course. I also have articles with daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers, and Quordle hints and answers if you need help with those topics as well.
SPOILER WARNING: Below you'll find information about today's NYT Connections, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Set #432): Words of the Day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- OK
- COWBOY
- ANKLE
- SUN
- HELLO
- TIDE
- YO-YO
- MOTHER
- FAIR
- COME ON, COME ON
- AVERAGE
- ELEVATOR
- Pennsylvania
- More or less
- EITHER
- UP TO THE THIGH
Today's NYT Connections (Set #432): Clue #1: Group Clues
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Standard
- Green: Four of the 50
- Blue: High heels
- Purple: Rise and fall
Need more clues?
We're now in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…
Today's NYT Connections (Game #432): Clue #2: Group Answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MEH
- GREEN: ABBREVIATIONS FOR US STATES
- BLUE: TYPES OF BOOTS
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT GO UP AND DOWN
Well, the answers are below, so DON'T CONTINUE FOLLOWING THE PAGE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Today's NYT Connections (Set #432): The Answers
The answers to today's Connections game, number 432, are…
- YELLOW: MEH AVERAGE, REGULAR, ACCEPTABLE, REGULAR
- GREEN: ABBREVIATIONS FOR US STATES Hello, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania.
- BLUE: TYPES OF BOOTS ANKLE, COWBOY, GO-GO, THIGH HIGH
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT GO UP AND DOWN ELEVATOR, SUN, TIDE, YO-YO
- My rating: Moderate
- My rating: Perfect
I always find it harder to group shorter Connections answers than longer ones, probably because there are more ways to group them. They often function as prefixes or suffixes, for example words like HI could easily be combined with many other words.
My strategy in these situations is to not rush things. Look for an obvious connection that doesn't necessarily involve any of those short words, and then see what happens. Today, I got the blue “Types of Boots” group first, with THIGH-HIGH in particular being a word that couldn't really mean anything else. Then the “Meh” group, which eliminated OK from the list. At that stage, the rest of those short words were easily lumped together into US states, leaving only the purple “Up and Down” group to solve by default (although I solved that mentally first anyway).
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Yesterday's NYT Connections Answers (Thursday, August 15, Game #431)
- YELLOW: WIDTH EXTENSION, SCOPE, EXTENT, SCOPE OF APPLICATION
- GREEN: THE OTHER HALF COMPLEMENT, PARTY, TOGETHER, PARTNER
- BLUE: BEERS, FAMILY BUD, NATTY, SIERRA, STELLA
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “PAY” CHECK, DIRT, PAL, PHONE
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
The plus side is that you don't technically need to solve the last one, as you'll be able to answer it by process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a bit of wiggle room.
However, it is a bit more complex than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trick you with tricks. For example, beware of homophones and other wordplay that could disguise the answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
