It’s the weekend and time to play Connections again. Here are some tips if you need them.
What should you do after you finish? Of course, play more word games. I also have daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers, and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need aid with those.
SPOILER ALERT: Below is information about tonight’s NYT Connections show, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answer.
NYT Connections Today (Game #426) – Today’s Words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- STRAWBERRY
- MILK
- OFFICE
- START
- BLONDE
- ROSE
- WORK
- TEAMS
- WORK
- FUNCTION
- EDGE
- MARS
- WINDOWS
- VICE
- DEVIL
- WORK
NYT Connections Today (Game #426) – Clue #1 – Group Clues
What are some tips for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: All in one color
- Green: Do what you have to do
- Blue: Not Apple
- Purple: The story of their lives
Need more tips?
Now we’re definitely getting into spoiler territory, but read on if you want to find out the four thematic answers to today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #426) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers to today’s NYT Connections questions?
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE RED
- GREEN: BE IN THE COMMITTEE
- BLUE: MICROSOFT PRODUCTS
- PURPLE: BIOPHYSICS
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Match #426) – Answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #426, are…
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE RED DEVIL, MARS, ROSE, STRAWBERRY
- GREEN: BE IN THE COMMITTEE FUNCTION, OPERATION, START-UP, WORK
- BLUE: MICROSOFT PRODUCTS EDGE, OFFICE, TEAMS, WINDOWS
- PURPLE: BIOPHYSICS BLONDE, WORK, MILK, VICE
- My rating: Moderate
- My result: Perfect
This was a more complex edition of Connections. There were a bunch of quests I would have never solved if I hadn’t done it by default, and a few others that I had to think about for a while.
Purple, the “biography” group, was one I would never have gotten – in retrospect I had heard of a few of them, but the connection between them just wouldn’t have occurred to me. Luckily I solved the others, but it took me a long time to realise that MARS, ROSE, STRAWBERRY and DEVIL were “things that are red”. This was the yellow group – so supposedly the easiest – but for some reason my brain didn’t connect them until I had been staring at the board for about 5 minutes!
How did you do today? Email me and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Friday, August 9, Game #425)
- YELLOW: ABSENT ABSENT, SOMEWHERE ELSE, GONE, MIA
- GREEN: SUPPORTING DEFENDER, CHAMPION, SUPPORTER, LECTURER
- BLUE: ROCK GENRES GLAM, GOTHIC, METAL, PUNK
- PURPLE: SHOCK ___ HORROR, JOCK, VALUE, WAVE
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It requires you to find groups of four items that have something in common, with each group having a different level of difficulty: green is basic, yellow is a little harder, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
The positive is that you technically don’t have to solve the last one, since you’ll be able to answer it by elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a bit of breathing room.
It’s a bit more complicated than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to surprise you with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that can hide answers.
You can play it for free via NYT Games Page on your desktop computer or mobile device.
