Good morning! We're going to play Connections, the clever word game from the NYT that challenges you to group answers into various categories. It can be tricky, so read on if you need hints.
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 #435): Words of the Day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- PEOPLE
- WARRIOR
- COCONUT
- TREE
- SOULMATE
- ROCK
- CHAIR
- BUN
- MOUNTAIN
- MUSTARD
- COUNTRY
- collected
- SAUERKRAUT
- WALLET
- BLUES
- GOLF CLUB
Today's NYT Connections (Set #435): Clue #1: Group Clues
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Listen
- Green: Sausage Party
- Blue: Spin and turn
- Purple: Animated classics
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 #435): Clue #2: Group Answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MUSICAL GENRES
- GREEN: SAUSAGES WITH CHOCOLATE
- BLUE: YOGA POSITIONS
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH PIXAR MOVIES
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 #435): The Answers
The answers to today's Connections game, number 435, are…
- YELLOW: MUSICAL GENRES BLUES, COUNTRY, FOLK, ROCK
- GREEN: SAUSAGES WITH CHOCOLATE BRAT, BUN, MUSTARD, SAUERKRUT
- BLUE: YOGA POSITIONS CHAIR, MOUNTAIN, TREE, WARRIOR
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH PIXAR MOVIES COCO, SOULMATE, UPDO, WALLET
- My rating: Hard
- My rating: 3 mistakes
Wow, what is the NYT doing? After yesterday's extremely difficult Connections puzzle (which I couldn't solve), comes another one that is possibly even harder. I solved it, but only with a lot of luck and (I'll be honest) what could be considered cheating.
And it all started off great. The yellow one, MUSIC GENRES, stood out right away. But that was as easy as it got. With 12 words left I couldn’t put any of them together into more groups. Nothing worked. Eventually I figured out that UPDO and WALLET both contained Pixar movies, UP and WALL-E, but I couldn’t find two more. I figured it was probably COCONUT and SOULMATE simply because I couldn’t see any suitable words within the other answers. But I wasn’t 100% sure, so I googled a list of Pixar movies and yes, those two were among them. Is that cheating? Possibly, but it was necessary today.
That left me with eight seemingly unrelated words, but I had three that seemed to go together in SAUERKRAUT, BUN and MUSTARD, which all seemed to be food-related. I couldn't think of what the fourth might be, though, so I took a random guess and on my last chance I got BRAT as the fourth. No, I would never have realised that BRAT was an abbreviation for BRATWURST (possibly because I'm a vegetarian), but even if it was, surely it shouldn't be included here as a GO-WITH BRATWURST? It doesn't “go with” bratwurst, it is bratwurst!
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Yesterday's NYT Connections Answers (Sunday, August 18, Game #434)
- YELLOW: ALARM BUTTONS ALARM, TIME, CAKE, TIME SETTING
- GREEN: “HERE’S A THOUGHT…” MAYBE, LET'S SAY, LET'S SUPPOSE, WHAT IF?
- BLUE: CANDY PIECES KISS, NERD, RUNT, WOPPER
- PURPLE: SEVEN DWARFS EXCEPT THE LAST LETTER DOING, GETTING DRUG, GROWLING, SLEEPING
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.
