NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Thursday, August 22 (game #438)
Our clues will help you solve the NYT’s Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going
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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.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got dailyWordle hints and answers,Strands hints and answersandQuordle hints and answersarticles if you need help for those too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a dailytoday’s Wordle answercolumn and a detailedanalysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He’s alsoplayed every Wordle ever and only lost onceand yes, he takes it all too seriously.
NYT Connections today (game #438) - today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
NYT Connections today (game #438) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
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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…
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NYT Connections today (game #438) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #438) - the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #438, are…
I don’t want to spend every day complaining about the difference between US English and UK English, but it would be nice if the NYT could either avoid ambiguity on that front or come up with a tech fix for it. In today’s Connections, for instance, there’s the word STORY. But it’s not in there as a tale, it’s in there as what we in the UK would call a STOREY with an E. So the connection between it and LEVEL, DECK and FLOOR didn’t occur to me until late on after I’d spent ages trying to work out what the fourth word for that green group could be.
Right, rant over – other than that issue, today’s game is not too bad, although the prank verbs purple group is not one I’d have got on my own. Then again, it is about 40 years since I was young enough to play pranks of those kind (and I didn’t anyway, because I was a shy nerd).
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 21 August, game #437)
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 theNYT Games siteon desktop or mobile.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the dailyWordle todaypage).
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