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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, August 17 (game #433)
By Marc McLaren,
7 hours ago
Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #433) - today's words
(Image credit: New York Times)
Today's NYT Connections words are…
TONGUE
TAPE
RANCH
NECK
FRENCH
LANGUAGE
DRESSING
COTTAGE
BANDAGE
CRAFTSMAN
MAKE OUT
SCISSORS
SPEECH
KISS
PRAIRIE
DIALECT
NYT Connections today (game #433) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
Yellow: Say what?
Green: Fooling around
Blue: Med kit
Purple: Dwellings
Need more clues?
We're firmly in 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 #433) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: SPOKEN COMMUNICATION
GREEN: CANOODLE
BLUE: FIRST AID KIT ITEMS
PURPLE: HOUSE STYLES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #433) - the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today's Connections, game #433, are…
YELLOW: SPOKEN COMMUNICATION DIALECT, LANGUAGE, SPEECH, TONGUE
GREEN: CANOODLE FRENCH, KISS, MAKE OUT, NECK
BLUE: FIRST AID KIT ITEMS BANDAGE, DRESSING, SCISSORS, TAPE
PURPLE: HOUSE STYLES COTTAGE, CRAFTSMAN, PRAIRIE, RANCH
My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect
This is an easy one even by recent Connections standards (which have tended more towards the simpler side of things anyway). For proof, there's the fact that I solved purple, supposedly the most difficult one, first – although I did have some help here. That's because house styles were also the subject of another NYT word game, Strands, just a few days ago – so CRAFTSMAN, COTTAGE and RANCH were all fresh in my mind. PRAIRIE didn't feature in that game, admittedly, but it wasn't too much of a mental stretch to put it together with the others.
None of the other three groups were particularly difficult either, so I solved this fairly swifted and saved my deliberations for another day.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, 16 August, game #432)
YELLOW: MEH AVERAGE, FAIR, OK, SO-SO
GREEN: U.S. STATE ABBREVIATIONS HI, MA, OR, PA
BLUE: KINDS OF BOOTS ANKLE, COWBOY, GO-GO, THIGH-HIGH
PURPLE: THINGS THAT GO UP AND DOWN ELEVATOR, SUN, TIDE, YO-YO
What is NYT Connections?
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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