Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
Looking for Thursday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:
ForbesToday’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Thursday, August 15 (#431)By Kris Holt
Hey, it’s Friday! We’ve made it. Just one more day, then the weekend is all ours.
Before we get there though, 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 can play on the NYT website or Games app.
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…
- OK
- COWBOY
- ANKLE
- SUN
- HI
- TIDE
- YO-YO
- MA
- FAIR
- GO-GO
- AVERAGE
- ELEVATOR
- PA
- SO-SO
- OR
- THIGH-HIGH
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — (forgive the slightly salty language here, but I can’t not use this video as the hint)
- Green group — four of 50 locations, for short
- Blue group — a certain kind of footwear
- Purple group — all rise, and then fall
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 — meh
- Green group — U.S. state abbreviations
- Blue group — kinds of boots
- Purple group — things that go up and down
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 — meh (AVERAGE, FAIR, OK, SO-SO)
- Green group — U.S. state abbreviations (HI, MA, OR, PA)
- Blue group — kinds of boots (ANKLE, COWBOY, GO-GO, THIGH-HIGH)
- Purple group — things that go up and down (ELEVATOR, SUN, TIDE, YO-YO)
A perfect game brings me up to a tidy 25 straight wins.
I suspected pretty quickly that there would be a group of U.S. state abbreviations, but with five possibilities in the mix, I had to take one out first. SO-SO gave me the yellows, which eliminated OK from the greens.
After those two groups, it was pretty plain sailing. THIGH-HIGH made the blues obvious enough, and I deduced the purple connection before submitting that group too.
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 Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. For a second, I considered making Chappell Roan’s “Red Wine Supernova” today’s song again because of the go-go boots reference but I promised I’d ease off on my fandom of her for a bit. Instead, let’s go with this Nancy Sinatra classic. That descending bass line makes for an excellent intro.
