Today’s Connections tips and answers for Tuesday, August 27

Looking for a clue for today’s August 27 Connections puzzle? We’ve combed through today’s connections for clues that can help you.

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 Tuesday, August 27, 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 Tuesday, August 27

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): Loud noise.
• Green (simple): Ways to describe spicy foods.
• Blue (medium): Things you can find in a salon.
• Purple (hardest): Types of a particular rectangular object in tabletop hobbies.
• Extra tip 1: Baseball and kick belong to two different groups.
• Extra tip 2: Cape and Magic belong to two different groups.

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):

Roar

Green (simple):

Fire

Blue (medium):

Hair clipper

Purple (hardest):

magic

What are today’s connection words?

Here are the 16 connecting words for today:

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:

• Explosive sound
• Chili quality
• Classic barbershop supplies
• Types of cards

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 Tuesday, August 27th:

• Explosive sound: Bang, crash, roar, thunder
• Chili quality: Fire, heat, kick, spice
• Classic barbershop supplies: Brush, cape, hair clipper, gel
• Types of cards: Baseball, Magic, Set, Tarot

My 50/50 reputation on Connections begins. Today I got the Explosive and Barbershop groups, but got sidetracked by Magic and somehow got Baseball and Kick together. I’m a total coward when it comes to spicy food, so I blame that.

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 Monday, August 26. You can also check out our list of best Wordle beginning words or use our Wordle solver tool to find the answer with ease!