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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Friday, August 9 (game #425)
By Marc McLaren,
1 day ago
Here's the final Connections puzzle of the week… and the 425th since it began more than a year ago. Give it a try, see if you can solve it, use my hints if not.
I was a little careless today, lulled into a false sense of security by completing green and yellow very quickly at the start of the game then being faced with what looked like two more easy groups. And they were – but for some reason I played [SHOCK] JOCK, VALUE, HORROR and… METAL? I have no idea why I thought SHOCK METAL was a thing, but I corrected my mistake swiftly with WAVE, and completed this Connections puzzle in no more than a couple of minutes once again. I sense a more difficult Connections game may be coming soon… surely?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
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