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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, August 24 (game #440)
By Marc McLaren,
20 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.
PURPLE: LANGUAGE HOMOPHONES BASK, CHECK, FINISH, TIE
My rating: Moderate
My score: 1 mistake
I'm determined to regain my Connections form, following three failures in a week, so I took extra care over today's game. And it was just as well – because it's another potentially difficult one.
I was at a disadvantage compared to some players from the start, because the blue group, CAR RENTAL COMPANIES, contains companies that to my knowledge do not operate outside of the United States, meaning that those of us who don't hail from the US might well have struggled with it. I might have guessed it anyway, if one of them was another global company, but as it was I left that group until the end and solved it by default.
That I was able to do so owed a lot to my having solved the most difficult purple group early on, which I was very pleased about; this was a clever connection that involved the end of the word being a chemical element – for instance LEAD in PLEAD or TIN in LATIN – but I was on the lookout for that kind of devious trick by the NYT, and spotted it right away. Phew!
PURPLE: LANGUAGE HOMOPHONES BASK, CHECK, FINISH, TIE
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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