Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
Looking for Friday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:
ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Today: Hints And Answers For Friday, August 9By Kris Holt
Hey, everyone! I hope you’ve got a terrific weekend lined up.
Anyway, today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- STRAWBERRY
- MILK
- OFFICE
- RUN
- BLONDE
- ROSE
- WORK
- TEAMS
- JOBS
- FUNCTION
- EDGE
- MARS
- WINDOWS
- VICE
- DEVIL
- OPERATE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — the same color
- Green group — gets the job done
- Blue group — Bill Gates had a hand in at least some of these
- Purple group — life stories
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — things that are red
- Green group — be in commission
- Blue group — Microsoft products
- Purple group — biopics
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — things that are red (DEVIL, MARS, ROSE, STRAWBERRY)
- Green group — be in commission (FUNCTION, OPERATE, RUN, WORK)
- Blue group — Microsoft products (EDGE, OFFICE, TEAMS, WINDOWS)
- Purple group — biopics (BLONDE, JOBS, MILK, VICE)
My streak is now up to 20 wins, though there was no perfect game today.
The blue group jumped out at me right away given that I write about technology for a living. The greens were up next and straightforward enough.
Then came my only mistake as I went for a group that referred to colors: ROSE, BLONDE, MILK and STRAWBERRY. It didn’t take long until I realized that was close but no cigar and got the yellows. I didn’t figure out the purple connection — I’ve only seen one of those movies, though I’ve heard of the others.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Sunday’s game if you need them.
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