Looking for a clue for today’s August 16 Connections puzzle? Relationships can go from light entertainment to pure frustration quicker than you think. If you’re stuck with today’s word list, we’ve got a number of hints below, along with all the word groups shown, to help you along.
Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by The New York Times (NYT), publisher of the endlessly popular Wordle puzzle. Created each day by puzzle maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words that you must group into four groups of four words, with each group of four words sharing a common theme.
It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, connections can sometimes be devilishly difficult, filled to the brim with red herrings, misleading words, and little-known trivia. If you’re having trouble solving today’s connections puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers for Friday, August 16, 2024.
Below we offer some carefully crafted tips and pointers for today’s Connections. Then we reveal the four different groups and finally we answer the Connections themselves for those who are tired of wondering how it all fits together.
In this manual:
Connection information for Friday, August 16
Here you’ll find a clue for each group of words in today’s Connections puzzle, plus some other Connections clues to help you find the answer.
Our connections tips for today are:
- Yellow (easiest): The way of expressing something is mediocre.
- Green (simple): These are short forms of certain places in the USA
- Blue (medium): These are types of a particular piece of clothing.
- Purple (hardest): These are things that move in a similar way.
- Extra tip 1: “Fair” is used here as an adjective.
- Extra tip 2: There is no hyphenated category.
If you’re looking for more Connections clues today to help narrow down the answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal a word from each group:
Yellow (easiest):
So so
Green (simple):
Woman
Blue (medium):
ankle
Purple (hardest):
Sun
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What are today’s connection words?
Here are the 16 connecting words for today:
| OK | cowboy | ankle | Sun |
| Hello | tide | Yo-Yo | Woman |
| Just | Let’s go | Average | Elevator |
| Pa | So so | Or | Thigh high |
What are today’s Connections groups?
If you need an even bigger clue to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll show you the four correct Connections groups – the themes that link each group of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- More
- Abbreviations of US states
- Types of boots
- Things that go up and down:
Now that you know the topics for the different compounds in today’s puzzle, try to solve it! If not, you can find the full answer below.
Spoiler alert! Today’s Connections answer is ahead of you!
What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle for Friday, August 16:
- Uh: Average, Mediocre, OK, So-so
- Abbreviations of US states: Hello, Ma, Or, Pa
- Types of boots: Ankle, cowboy, go-go, overknee
- Things that go up and down: Elevator, sun, tide, yo-yo
Of course, my first instinct on today’s Connections was to target the hyphenated words. “Yo-yo,” “So-so,” “Go-go,” and “Thigh-high” stick out like a sore thumb among the other words. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time, and it won’t be the last, that Connections has fooled me like a cunning sphinx. I should have known I was on the wrong track when I successfully found the “Shoes” category.
When I looked at current fashion trends, I immediately thought of cowboy boots when I saw the word “cowboy,” and when I saw “ankle,” my suspicion that there was a shoe group somewhere was confirmed. However, I couldn’t classify “thigh high” into two categories. At some point I was at a loss and gave up, which was probably for the best, because there was no way I could have defined “things that go up and down” as a category. That seems complicated even by Connections standards.
Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy tips above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like Wordle.
What is Connections?
Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games from the New York Times (owner of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words sharing a common theme.
For example, the words “hook,” “nana,” “Peter,” and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or, to give another example, “action,” “ballpark,” “go,” and “stick” are all words that usually come right before the word “figure.”
Your task is to find out which topics the different words connect. But be careful, because often false connections are deliberately made to mislead you! To win the game, you must find all four connections without making four mistakes. If you make a fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is automatically displayed.
Each of the four groups in the Connections puzzle of the day is also given a different color that indicates how easy or difficult the connection is to find. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (easy), blue (moderately difficult) and purple (most difficult).
That concludes today’s guide to solving the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you need help with Wordle, we also have our list of previous Wordle answers for you, as well as the Wordle clue and answer for Thursday, August 15th. You can also check out our list of best Wordle beginning words or use our Wordle solver tool to find the answer with ease!
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