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
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
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.
