Looking for today’s Connections answers? The August 13 Connections answers for puzzle #429 are a little bit harder than yesterday’s answers. The Connections Companion rates this puzzle difficulty at 2.8 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 #428 in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers for Connections #429 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: Specified
- 🟩 Green: Nickname
- 🟦 Blue: Apparently
- 🟪 Purple: _____ houses (that are not houses)
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 seeks your username as given by non-buildings. It’s obvious (it’s not).
Today’s Connections Answers
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #429?
Drum roll, please…
- 🟨 Specified: Said, spoke, told, expressed
- 🟩 Nickname: Designation, name, nickname
- 🟦 Apparently: Clear, distinct, distinctive, striking
- 🟪 _____ Houses (that are not houses): Porter, power, rough, wheel
I started with the yellow category and saw two of the words in the bottom corners and the last two in the top row. Said, spoke, told and voiced. A neat little shape.
Regardless of which category it fell into, the next step was to come up with a nickname. What a fun word to put into a puzzle that seems to shy away from $5 words. From there, it was a quick process of coming up with label, handle, and nickname.
Next I grabbed the purple category with Porter, Power, Rough and Wheel houses. To be honest I didn’t see the connection with the houses, I was mostly confused about the blue category.
Marked, distinct and conspicuous all make sense as compounds, but I struggled to see clearly when I unraveled the grid. In a sense, these words all mean obvious. That’s sometimes a problem with me with the compounds, as I see what you would consider a colloquial definition before I see secondary ones. Clearly, for me, was not apparently because the other words mean more than obvious to me. They mean conspicuous, distinct, if you will, whereas clear doesn’t really fit.
That’s how it works.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #428, which had a difficulty level of 2.4 out of 5 according to the Connections Companion.
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.