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Marc McLaren

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, August 12 (game #428)

NYT Connections homescreen on a phone, on a purple background.

Monday's Connections is here – and so are my hints for it. Read on if you need them.

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 #428) - today's words

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are…

  • BOWIE
  • HEAD
  • FULL
  • BUTTER
  • LEAD
  • THRONE
  • MERCURY
  • KING
  • QUEEN
  • BUTTERFLY
  • JOHN
  • GOLD
  • BUTCHER
  • TWIN
  • TIN
  • CAN

NYT Connections today (game #428) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • Yellow: Heavy?
  • Green: Sleep tight
  • Blue: A very private place
  • Purple: Blades

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 #428) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: METAL ELEMENTS
  • GREEN: MATTRESS SIZES
  • BLUE: SLANG FOR TOILET
  • PURPLE: KINDS OF KNIVES

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #428) - the answers

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #428, are…

  • YELLOW: METAL ELEMENTS GOLD, LEAD, MERCURY, TIN
  • GREEN: MATTRESS SIZES FULL, KING, QUEEN, TWIN
  • BLUE: SLANG FOR TOILET CAN, HEAD, JOHN, THRONE
  • PURPLE: KINDS OF KNIVES BOWIE, BUTCHER, BUTTER, BUTTERFLY

  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

I'm not an expert in knives, mattresses, metals or, um, toilets, but all of the answers in today's Connections are obvious enough that I sailed through it, and I suspect many others will do too.

I spotted green – KING, QUEEN, TWIN – right away, but wasn't sure FULL was also a type of mattress, so left that one alone and looked elsewhere. Then I spotted BOWIE, and other than David Bowie, the only connection I could think of was knife. Looking around I saw BUTCHER, BUTTER and BUTTERFLY, and solved purple right away. The fact that that was the toughest, supposedly, says it all about how easy this one was, and I quickly moved through the other groups, solving the mattress one by default but having long ago realized that it definitely was correct.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.


Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 11 August, game #427)

  • YELLOW: LARGE BOAT BARGE, CRAFT, SHIP, VESSEL
  • GREEN: ALL-TIME GREAT BEST, CHAMP, GOAT, LEGEND
  • BLUE: REGARDING ABOUT, CONCERNING, ON, TOWARD
  • PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF BODY FEATURES HARE, I, MUSSEL, NAVAL

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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