Looking for today’s Connections answers? The August 20 Connections answers for puzzle #436 have gotten a little harder compared to yesterday’s answers. The Connections Companion rates this puzzle’s difficulty at 2.2 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 #435 in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers for Connections #436 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: Gust of wind
- 🟩 Green: Turn
- 🟦 Blue: Zodiac sign
- 🟪 Purple: Dr. Seuss title characters
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 is a gust of wind on a fall day that will have you turning over as the day goes on to admire the leaves and stars. Afterward, you can curl up with a good book, maybe something by Seuss. I’m ready for fall, in case you haven’t noticed.
These clues should give you at least some of the answers to today’s Connections questions. If not, you can read on for more clues. If you just want to know the answer, keep scrolling down. Here’s another hint: don’t worry too much about today’s puzzle. Instead, put on some music, grab some snacks, and watch one of the movies you loved as a kid.
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #436?
Drum roll, please…
- 🟨 Gust of wind: blow, draft, gust, gust of wind
- 🟩 Turn: Crank, spool, turn the wind
- 🟦 Zodiac sign: Taurus, Crab, Leo, Aries
- 🟪 Dr. Seuss title characters: Cat, Grinch, Pop, Turtle
Apparently today’s grid is easier than Monday’s puzzle. Not for me.
I won’t say how long I spent figuring out the blue and purple categories because I don’t actually know, but I had to take a break and come back to it later.
I started the day by cranking, rolling, turning and winding the green hook.
I had already thought of yellow, so blow, draft, gust and puff came soon after I inserted the green words.
I got a few strikes here because I couldn’t see the blue or purple category no matter how hard I tried.
I can usually make some kind of mental connection, but today my brain wasn’t working. The only reason I got the blue category was wild guessing after I almost got it wrong. Should I have known that Taurus, Cancer, Leo and Aries are zodiac signs, yes, but not today.
It’s a shame, because purple is fun for the title characters in Dr. Seuss’s The Cat (In the Hat), (How the) Grinch (Stole Christmas), (Hop on) Pop, and (Yertle the) Turtle (and Other Stories).
That’s how it goes sometimes.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #435, which according to the Connections Companion.
Alyssa was glad that she had an easier time with the puzzle on Monday than on Sunday. The yellow category was first without much effort. Blues is hard to confuse with anything other than the genre of music, and when she started tracking down other genres, country, folk and rock quickly caught her eye.
She was at a family barbecue yesterday and probably still had hot dogs and hamburgers on her mind, because next came greens with bratwurst, bread rolls, mustard and sauerkraut.
After that, she stumbled around a bit, but managed to stumble into a category where she was only one wrong answer away from correctly guessing another category. She had heard of mountain and warrior poses in yoga before, and she vaguely remembered chair poses from a yoga class a friend had dragged me to years ago. But she didn’t know that tree was one too; the more the merrier!
The purple category became a routine task after that. She says she should have guessed the connection, since the same category from yesterday was linked to another cartoon, Snow White, but that still wasn’t enough of a clue for her.
