Looking for today’s Connections answers? The August 12 Connections answers for puzzle #428 are a little harder than yesterday’s answers. The Connections Companion rates this puzzle’s difficulty at 2.4 out of 5.
Every day we update this article with Connections clues and tips to help you find all 4 answers from today. And if the clues aren’t enough, you can find all 4 answers below with the category titles and the corresponding words. We also include a reflection on yesterday’s puzzle #427 in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers for Connections #428 follow. Read on only if you want to know today’s Connections answers.
Alternatively, you can visit our NYT Connections game guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
Today’s Connections Answer – Tips for Solving
Unlike our guide to today’s Wordle answer where we recommend the best Wordle seed words as a strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying categories of connections among 16 words. The difficulty level of each category is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping and purple is the most challenging. Once you make 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers are revealed, so hints can be helpful.
If you need hints on how to solve the groupings, you can find the topics of the individual groupings here, sorted by difficulty level:
- 🟨 Yellow: Metal elements
- 🟩 Green: Mattress sizes
- 🟦 Blue: Slang for toilet
- 🟪 Purple: Types of knives
These clues should give you at least part of the answer to today’s Connections question. If not, you can read on for bigger clues. If you just want to know the answer, keep scrolling down.
Here is a bigger hint: Today’s puzzle takes a little tour of your average home and includes the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and… the periodic table?
Today’s Connections Answers
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #428?
Drum roll, please…
- 🟨 Metal elements: Gold, lead, mercury, tin
- 🟩 Mattress sizes: Full, King, Queen, Twin
- 🟦 Slang for toilet: Can, Head, John, Throne
- 🟪 Types of knives: Bowie, butcher, butter, butterfly
The Connections Crew really confused me with today’s clues. Bowie, Queen and John made me think of my dad’s favorite musicians, but it turns out they meant something closer to home.
I got the yellow category first when I realized that Mercury might mean the element and not Freddie Mercury. Gold and lead were easy to sniff out after that, followed by tin.
Then came the green category. It wasn’t until I reshuffled the puzzle and found Full and Twin close together that I noticed. King and Queen weren’t kings, they were mattress sizes, of course!
With my head straight again, I realized that Butcher was either the profession or the knife. As I pulled on that thread, Butter and Butterfly began to make sense, and that’s when I finally realized that Bowie was more than a rock star.
Blue (Can, Head, John and Throne) came afterward as an excuse, even though I had successfully guessed this category before the results were announced.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #427, which according to the Connections Companion.
Yellow was a no-brainer for me yesterday. Growing up near the largest naval base in the world, I’ve heard pretty much every name for a boat there is, so the terms ship, boat, craft, and barge were pretty easy to understand.
Next came green. With the Olympics currently underway in Paris, I had gold in mind, so Best and Champ caught my eye. Next came Legend, and then GOAT, after I realized they meant the acronym for Great of All Time, not the four-legged variety.
Then I set about solving the blue category. I thought it might be related to About and On somehow. Maybe something to do with parts of speech? But I was right on my second guess after adding Concerning and Toward.
Purple was a memorized addition after that, and although I didn’t guess the category, I can understand the play on words.