Looking for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on August 27 for puzzle #443 are a bit more difficult than yesterday's answers, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3.4 out of 5.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers. And if the hints aren't enough, you'll find all 4 answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words. Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #442, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #443. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
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Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Explosive sound
- 🟩 Green: Chili pepper quality
- 🟦 Blue: Classic barbershop supplies
- 🟪 Purple: Kinds of cards
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Here's a larger hint: Do not look for NBA teams, instead consider spiciness, and the sound of a rainstorm then look back through your collections before maybe getting a haircut.
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #443?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Explosive sound: Boom, crash, roar, thunder
- 🟩 Chili pepper quality: Fire, heat, kick, spice
- 🟦 Classic barbershop supplies: Brush, cape, clippers, gel
- 🟪 Kinds of cards: Baseball, magic, set, tarot
Not gonna lie, I don't think I've ever been more confused then when I took an immediate strike putting Clippers, Thunder, Heat and Magic together. Turns out it was the obvious trap.
After I moved on from that blow, I started with heat, saw fire and spice and quickly found kick for the green category.
Yellow followed soon after with thunder, boom, crash and roar.
I took another strike as I was trying to piece together a nail salon connection with clippers, gel, brush and set. That didn't work.
Somehow, that helped me see baseball cards, then magic, set and tarot. There is a card game called Set and you can say card set, but I don't like that word for this connection, it really feels a stretch.
Blue became a rote fill with brush, cape, clippers and gel as things in a barbershop.
Yesterday's Connections answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #441, which had a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
The green category came first for me today, and it taught me a new word once it was revealed: torus. That's the fancy scientific name for donut-shaped, which is what I had in mind when I connected Bagel, Lifesaver, Tire, and Wreath.
Next came the yellow category. I saw Blessing first and started looking for other words related to religion, and when I found none, that's when Approval and Support started popping out to me. Once I spotted Consent, I realized all four had to do with sanctioning.
I stumbled into solving blue. I tried to link Slice and Loaf together as things dealing with bread, but when that failed I tried words that sounded like an action verb of swinging something: Hook, Shank, Slice, and Whiff. That that "something" would be a golf club totally went over my head. But I suppose even a broken clock is right twice a day.
That made purple a rote fill, which worked out well for me because I never get the categories that have to do with homophones or missing letters/sounds. And today's was particularly tricky.
