If you have a Connections To maintain your winning streak – or if you start a new one –Newsweek has all the information you need to win the word game.
The puzzle was created by The New York Times in June last year and has since become the newspaper’s second most played game, behind Wordleanother word puzzle.
If you have never played it, Connections challenges players to uncover threads that connect a series of words. Instructions on how to play are below. Clues and answers to today’s puzzle can be found towards the end of the article.
How to play “Connections”
Connections Players must group 16 words into four categories based on their association. For example, Thursday’s game linked the words “extent,” “area,” “reach,” and “scope” under the category “width.”
Each of the four categories is marked with a color that also indicates its level of difficulty. Yellow is the easiest category, followed by green, blue, and purple. However, the puzzles are rarely easy and use homophones and wordplay, among other things, to challenge players.
The familiarity of the words used and how often they appear in modern life are also factors in difficulty, although less common words are not only used in the more difficult categories. “Element overlap,” where one word can be linked to multiple categories, is another possibility Connections tests players.
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If players get stuck, they can click the Shuffle button, which will change the order of the words on the screen.
Wyna Liu, crossword editor at Just who was asked Connectionstold Newsweek about their recommended tips for playing the game.
“My best advice is to wait as long as possible before guessing,” she said.
“You may see the board and have already fully identified the category because you see five words that could belong in that category,” she continued. “Don’t try to guess the four words in that category because even though you know what the fifth member is, you don’t know which of the four it might not be,” which will ultimately cause you to waste a turn.
“Don’t do what I do, which is ‘anger release,'” Liu said.
The answers for today’s Connections The puzzle will be revealed at the end of this article, so scroll carefully if you want to solve it yourself.
‘Connections’ #432 Notes for Friday, August 16
Newsweek has some tips to help you understand today’s Connections Categories.
Yellow: These words can be used to describe something mediocre.
Green: Each of these answers represents a location in the United States.
Blue: When answering these questions, think about shoes.
Purple: These words are associated with movement.
“Connections” No. 432 – Answers for Friday, August 16
Yellow category: MEH
Yellow words: Average, Mediocre, OK, So-so
Green Category: ABBREVIATIONS OF US STATES
Green words: HELLO, MA, OR, PA
Blue Category: Types of Boots
Blue words: Ankle, cowboy, go-go, overknee
Purple Category: Things that go up and down
Purple words: Elevator, sun, tide, yo-yo
Did you guess the answers correctly? Then congratulations. If not, there will be another chance to solve the puzzle tomorrow.
Connections will be published at midnight in your local time zone. Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips for each new game.
