Looking for today’s Connections answers? The August 23 Connections answers for puzzle #439 are down less than three compared to yesterday’s answers, with the Connections Companion rating the difficulty of this puzzle at 3.6 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 #438 in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers for Connections #439 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: Visual interface
- 🟩 Green: Burlesque clothing
- 🟦 Blue: Beige tones
- 🟪 Purple: Language homophones
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: If you know burlesque, start there. Then think about colors and decorations. Round it all off with languages.
Today’s Connections Answers
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #439?
Drum roll, please…
- 🟨 Visual interface: display, monitor, screen, terminal
- 🟩 Burlesque clothing: Boa, corset, fans, gloves
- 🟦 Beige tones: Yellow brown, cream, fawn, light brown
- 🟪 Language homophones: Sun, check, ready, tie
My week of ups and downs continues, with difficulties at level 2 but successes at level 3.
In my younger days I had a few friends who were into burlesque, so boas, corsets, fans and gloves were an easy first category. I don’t miss feathers.
From there I went to the yellow category with display, monitor, screen, terminal.
I’m stuck with the blue category because I don’t think I’ve ever heard of buff as a shade of beige, let alone a color. The only reason I paired it with cream, fawn, and tan is because none of the other words fit on the color wheel.
I tried to make a connection between the nails with Finish, Buff, Tan and Bask (that’s a long shot, I know). But it got me seeing colors.
I never saw the purple category of language homophones, but I understood it when grouped together in the last category. It’s clever with bask (Basque), check (Czech), finish (Finnish) and tie (Thai).
Yesterday’s Connections answers
Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #438, which had a difficulty rating of 2.8 out of 5 according to the Connections Companion.
I’ll tell you what: If the difficulty level is 3 this week, I’m totally into the puzzle. If the difficulty level is 2, I’m stuck staring blankly at the screen. That’s not my week.
To be honest, I was in a rush and very distracted by a five-year-old who had way too many questions for that time of day.
I managed to get the green category first with deck, floor, level and story. It’s so boring I thought it was the yellow one.
It took me a few tries to create orbs with the globe, sun, moon and egg. No idea.
This somehow led me to accidentally grab newspaper titles with Globus, Spiegel, Post and Sonne in them. I don’t know.
Finally, the yellow category came with projector, reel, screen and speakers. I have to say that I spent most of today thinking of speakers as “speakers” rather than audio devices.
Purple was fun, but the standard formula was egg, moon, stripes, and toilet paper. Maybe it would have given the name away, but I wish they had used TP instead of toilet paper. Toilet paper as a verb sounds too formal.
Anyway, I hope Friday is a 3 so I can start again.
