Looking for today’s Connections answers? The August 21st Connections answers for puzzle #437 are significantly more difficult compared to yesterday’s answers. The Connections Companion rates this puzzle’s difficulty at 3.4 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 #436 in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers for Connections #437 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: Cover with a thick layer
- 🟩 Green: Things that are inflated
- 🟦 Blue: Types of diagrams
- 🟪 Purple: Classic cocktails
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: Mix yourself a strong drink while you look through some cards before blowing it all up while layering clothes.
Today’s Connections Answers
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #437?
Drum roll, please…
- 🟨 Cover with a thick layer: cake, coat, plaster, grease
- 🟩 Things that are inflated: Balloon, basketball, floatie, hoop
- 🟦 Types of charts: Bar, bubble, line and pie charts
- 🟪 Classic cocktails: Sparkling, punch, sling, sour
After struggling through the supposedly easier puzzle yesterday, today’s “more difficult” puzzle was a nice change.
I got things started by first discovering the purple category with Fizz, Punch, Sling and Sour. However, my mental connection was gin-based cocktails. The four listed are good with gin, but can be made with other spirits too.
Yellow was the next addition with cake, coat, plaster and grease. There is not much to say about this.
The air trap caught me when I took a hit while assembling the balloon, water wings, basketball and bubble. It was an easy swap to put the hoop down instead.
I’ve done relatively little charting in my life, but bar, line and pie charts made sense. I don’t think I’ve ever consciously seen a bubble chart or even knew that’s what it was called. It’s always nice to learn something new.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #436, which according to the Connections Companion.
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.