Looking for today’s Connections answers? The August 29 Connections answers for puzzle #445 are a little less difficult compared to yesterday’s answers. The Connections Companion rates the difficulty of this puzzle at 3 out of 5.
Every day we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 answers of today. And if the hints are not 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 #444 in case you are reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers for Connections #445 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: Types of Piano
- 🟩 Green: Hold
- 🟦 Blue: US colleges/universities
- 🟪 Purple: Second names in companies with ampersands
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 follow the sequence, you will remember the different types of Bach players, and first the universities, then the big corporations.
Today’s Connections Answers
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #445?
Drum roll, please…
- 🟨 Types of pianos: Electronic, Grand Piano, Player, Piano
- 🟩 Consider it: Observe, count, judge, observe
- 🟦 US Colleges/Universities: Brown, Herzog, Howard, Smith
- 🟪 Middle names in companies with ampersands: Gamble, Johnson, Noble, Young
I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s satisfying to be able to scroll down through the categories.
I managed to do that today, starting with the different types of pianos: electric piano, grand piano, automatic piano.
I tried bringing titles with Count, Judge, Duke and admittedly forced nobility in green. The blow opened the door and sticking with Count and Judge could quickly add “consideration” and “regard”.
From then on, he quickly moved on to universities such as Brown, Duke, Howard and Smith.
There were opportunities to get purple early on in the search. I thought of Johnson & Johnson and Proctor & Gamble, but I had never heard of Noble & (Cooley?) or Young & (Company?), so I wasn’t quite sure. Noble & Cooley is an instrument manufacturer known for its drums. Young could be Ernst & Young, one of the larger accounting firms in the US, so it was nice that purple ended up being the default.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #444, which had a difficulty rating of 3.7 out of 5 according to the Connections Companion.
I started the day with a strike as I assembled the jungle gym, slide, seesaw, and tetherball. I swapped out the tetherball for swings to cover yellow.
I wasn’t looking for things at the end of a string as a category, but got pendulum, tea bag, tetherball, and yo-yo, thinking of things that work like a yo-yo or a seesaw, depending on what you want.
Next came the purple category with (baby) blues, boomer, steps and teeth. I saw teeth and steps first and put them together to form blues and boomer.
The blue category makes sense for things that are described as dry: dessert, humor, martini, and teetotalers.
This is a difficult puzzle and it took me a while to figure out some of the connections, but nothing is quite as unexpected as a few harder puzzles.
