Here’s your final Connections tips page of the week – complete with the answers if you need them and my commentary on the game.
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. 432) – the words of the day
The words of NYT Connections today are…
- OK
- COWBOY
- ANKLE
- SUN
- HELLO
- TIDE
- JO-JO
- MA
- JUST
- LET’S GO
- AVERAGE
- ELEVATOR
- P.A.
- So so
- OR
- THIGH HIGH
NYT Connections Today (Game #432) – Clue #1 – Group Clues
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: standard
- Green: Four of the 50
- Blue: High heels
- Purple: Rise and fall
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 #432) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MEH
- GREEN: ABBREVIATIONS OF US STATES
- BLUE: BOOT TYPES
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT GO DOWN AND UP
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. 432) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections game No. 432 are…
- YELLOW: MEH AVERAGE, FAIR, OK, SO-SO
- GREEN: ABBREVIATIONS OF US STATES HELLO, MA, OR, PA
- BLUE: BOOT TYPES Ankle, Cowboy, Go-Go, Thigh High
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT GO DOWN AND UP Elevator, sun, tide, yo-yo
- My rating: Moderate
- My result: Perfect
I always find short Connections answers harder to group than longer ones, probably because there are just more ways to put them together. Often they work as prefixes or suffixes, for example you could easily combine words like HI with many other words.
My strategy in these situations is not to rush things. Look for an obvious connection that doesn’t necessarily contain one of those short words, and then see what happens. Today I got the blue “Types of Boots” group first, with THIGH-HIGH in particular being a word that really couldn’t mean anything else. Then the “Meh” group, which knocked out OK. At this point, the rest of those short words were easily combining to form US states, so by default only the purple “Up and Down” group was left to solve (though I still solved it in my head first).
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Thursday, August 15, Game #431)
- YELLOW: WIDTH Scope, reach, reach
- GREEN: OTHER HALF complement, partner, partner
- BLUE: BEERS, FAMILY BUD, NATTY, SIERRA, STELLA
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “NUMBERS” CHECK, DIRT, Buddy, PHONE
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.
