NYT Connections today hints and answers for Friday, August 16 (game #432)

Date:
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:02:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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Here's your final Connections hints page of the week complete with the answers if you need them and my commentary on the game.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those
too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #432) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are OK COWBOY ANKLE SUN HI TIDE YO-YO MA FAIR GO-GO AVERAGE ELEVATOR PA So-SO OR THIGH-HIGH NYT Connections today (game #432) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Standard Green: Four of the 50 Blue: Tall shoes Purple: Rise and fall

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT
Connections today (game #432) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: MEH GREEN: U.S. STATE ABBREVIATIONS BLUE: KINDS OF BOOTS PURPLE: THINGS THAT GO UP AND DOWN

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #432) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #432, are YELLOW: MEH AVERAGE, FAIR, OK, SO-SO GREEN: U.S. STATE ABBREVIATIONS HI, MA, OR, PA BLUE: KINDS OF BOOTS ANKLE, COWBOY, GO-GO, THIGH-HIGH PURPLE: THINGS THAT GO UP AND DOWN ELEVATOR, SUN, TIDE, YO-YO My rating: Moderate My score: Perfect

I always find short Connections answers harder to group than longer ones, probably because there are simply more ways in which they can be assembled. Often they work as prefixes or suffixes, for instance; the likes of HI could quite easily pair with many other words.

My strategy in these situations is to not rush things. Look for an obvious connection that doesn't necessarily include any of those short words, then
see what happens. Today, I got the blue 'Kinds of boots' group first, with THIGH-HIGH in particular being a word that really couldn't mean anything
else. Then the 'Meh' group, which took OK out of commission. At that stage
the remainder of those short words readily assembled themselves into US states, leaving just the purple 'Up and down' group to solve by default (though I did mentally solve it first anyway).

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 15 August, game #431) YELLOW: BREADTH EXTENT, RANGE, REACH, SCOPE GREEN: OTHER HALF COMPLEMENT, MATCH, MATE, PARTNER BLUE: BEERS, FAMILIARLY BUD, NATTY, SIERRA, STELLA PURPLE: WORDS AFTER PAY CHECK, DIRT, PAL, PHONE What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green
is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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