Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that requires you to sort answers into different categories. This can be tricky, so read on if you need clues.
What should you do when you’re done? Play some word games, of course. I also have daily articles with tips and answers for Wordle, Strands and Quordle if you need help with those too.
SPOILER ALERT: Information about today’s NYT Connections is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (Game No. 435) – the words of the day
The words of NYT Connections today are…
- FOLK
- WARRIOR
- COCONUT
- TREE
- SOULMATES
- ROCK
- CHAIR
- BREAD ROLL
- MOUNTAIN
- MUSTARD
- COUNTRY
- Updo
- SAUERKRAUT
- WALLET
- BLUES
- BRAT
NYT Connections Today (Game #435) – Clue #1 – Group Clues
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Listen
- Green: Sausage Festival
- Blue: Turn and twist
- Purple: Animated classics
Need more advice?
Now we’re moving into the spoiler zone, but read on if you want to know the four topic answers for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #435) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MUSIC GENRES
- GREEN: BRATWURST ACCOMPANIMENT
- BLUE: YOGA POSITIONS
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH PIXAR MOVIES
That’s right, the answers are below, SO DON’T SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (Game No. 435) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #435 are…
- YELLOW: MUSIC GENRES BLUES, COUNTRY, FOLK, ROCK
- GREEN: BRATWURST ACCOMPANIMENT BRAT, BUN, MUSTARD, SAUERKRAUT
- BLUE: YOGA POSITIONS CHAIR, MOUNTAIN, TREE, WARRIOR
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH PIXAR MOVIES COCONUT, SOULMATES, FLORAL ROSE, WALLET
- My rating: Hard
- My result: 3 errors
Wow, what’s the NYT doing? After yesterday’s very, very difficult Connections puzzle – which I failed – here’s one that is arguably even more difficult. I solved this one, but only with a lot of luck and – I’ll be honest – what could be considered cheating.
And it all started so well. Yellow, MUSIC GENRES, immediately stood out. But it couldn’t get any simpler. When there were 12 words left, I couldn’t group any more. Nothing worked. Finally, I realized that UPDO and WALLET both contained Pixar movies – UP and WALL-E – but I couldn’t find two more. I guessed it was probably COCONUT (COCO) and SOULMATE (SOUL or MATE), simply because I couldn’t find any matching words in the other answers. But I wasn’t 100% sure, so I looked on Google for a list of Pixar movies and yes, these two were among them. Is this cheating? Possibly, but today it was necessary.
That still left me with eight seemingly unrelated words, but I had three that seemed to go together: SAUERKRAUT, BUN, and MUSTARD, all of which seemed to be food-related. I couldn’t think of what the fourth could be, though, so I just guessed and on my last chance got BRAT as the fourth. No, I would never have guessed that BRAT is short for BRATWURST (possibly because I’m a vegetarian), but even if it is, surely it shouldn’t be listed here as a BRATWURST ACCOMPANIMENT? It doesn’t “go” with bratwurst, it’s bratwurst!
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Sunday, August 18, Game #434)
- YELLOW: ALARM BUTTONS ALARM, HOUR, SNOOZE, SET TIME
- GREEN: “HERE IS A THOUGHT…” MAYBE, SAY, SUPPORT, WHAT IF
- BLUE: CANDY PIECES KISS, NERD, RUNT, WHOPPER
- PURPLE: SEVEN DWARFS WITHOUT A LAST LETTER DO, DO, MURME, SLEEP
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games from the New York Times. You have to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a bit harder, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
The upside is that you don’t technically have to solve the final puzzle, as you can solve it by process of elimination. Plus, you’re allowed to make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little wiggle room.
It is a bit more complicated than Wordle, however, and has many ways to trick you. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that could obscure the answers.
It can be played for free on desktop or mobile via the NYT Games site.