Each day’s game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today’s Connections hints and answers, here are Monday’s:
Hey there, Connectors! I hope your week is off to a wonderful start.
I went to a couple of shows over the weekend, including one on Friday night. It was an evening of emo/metal tribute bands. I skipped the first act, which paid homage to A Day to Remember, since I don’t know that band’s music at all. The Paramore tribute group was pretty decent, but the headliner was the main reason I went.
I’ve mentioned this a few times in this here column, but over the last few months, I’ve fallen head over heels in love with Electric Callboy. Their songs are an intoxicating mix of pop, metal and electronica/techno. Just fantastically fun stuff. It’s going to be a while before I get the chance to see the real deal live, so I couldn’t really pass up the chance to see a tribute band that was playing fairly close to my home.
For it only being their second show, I thought the tribute band did a great job. They really got the crowd going. I’d never seen a wall of death with as few as about 20 people before, but they made it happen. The glow sticks that were handed out to the audience members and the confetti definitely helped with the party vibe. I had a great time, and I’d definitely see them again. But more than anything, the show reinforced my desire to see the real Electric Callboy as soon as possible. North America tour dates when, guys?
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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, August 5 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’s 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.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
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…
- DRESS
- SCARF
- SUBWAY
- GRATE
- PIPE
- TUBE
- CUBE
- ZIP
- HEALTH
- CARROT
- UNDERGROUND
- SECRET
- METRO
- MINCE
- COAL
- SLICE
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- 🟨 Yellow group — ways to describe a generally efficient way to get around
- 🟩 Green group — make sure you sharpen your tools first!
- 🟦 Blue group — Anna would like to put these together with her sister
- 🟪 Purple group — time, spaghetti and bar would fit in here
One Word For Each Connections Group
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let’s take a look at one word for each group.
Today’s Connections word hints are…
- 🟨 Yellow group — TUBE
- 🟩 Green group — GRATE
- 🟦 Blue group — SCARF
- 🟪 Purple group — HEALTH
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Today’s Connections groups are…
- 🟨 Yellow group — subterranean transit
- 🟩 Green group — make into smaller pieces while cooking
- 🟦 Blue group — used to decorate a snowman
- 🟪 Purple group — _____ code
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 — subterranean transit (METRO, SUBWAY, TUBE, UNDERGROUND)
- 🟩 Green group — make into smaller pieces while cooking (CUBE, GRATE, MINCE, SLICE)
- 🟦 Blue group — used to decorate a snowman (CARROT, COAL, PIPE, SCARF)
- 🟪 Purple group — _____ code (DRESS, HEALTH, SECRET, ZIP)
The yellows were super straightforward, and not only because I’m dashing off to take the METRO to go somewhere as soon as I’m finished writing this column. So, I have it on my mind. I had no problems with the greens either, with MINCE opening the door there.
CARROT and COAL gave the game away for the blues too. I don’t think I’ve ever actually built a snowman with the traditional accoutrements, but I’ve seen them often enough in movies etc to know what they look like.
I was able to figure out the purples before submitting them too, largely thanks to ZIP and DRESS. “SECRET code” isn’t quite a common enough expression for it to be a very neat fit here, I don’t think, but it does work.
Pretty straightforward game today, I felt. My streak now sits at 158 wins in a row. Here’s my grid for today:
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That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I’d planned to go with something else today and recommend this song later this week, but this one fits in neatly with today’s puzzle, so I had to change things up.
“The Subway” is the latest single by Chappell Roan. As with pretty much everything else she’s done over the last few years, it’s great stuff. This is a dreamy, heartfelt ballad about a lost love. The video’s terrific too. though I would not personally every find myself in the Washington Square Park fountain. No, thank you:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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