Subj : NYT Connections today hints and answers for Friday, August 2 (ga To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Fri Aug 02 2024 00:15:04 NYT Connections today hints and answers for Friday, August 2 (game #418) Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:02:00 +0000 Description: 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. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Your Friday Connections puzzle is here from the NYT which means your Friday Connections hints are also here. Good luck. 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 #418) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) Today's NYT Connections words are PRESENT SAMPLE JEALOUS TRY TAX MIX LUSH POSSESSIVE DIRECT TEST SCRATCH NAUSEOUS SPIN IRREGULAR ECOLOGICAL STRAIN NYT Connections today (game #418) - hint #1 - group hints What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Putting you under pressure Green: Decks appeal Blue: All about words Purple: Related to a specific color 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 #418) - hint #2 - group answers What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: STRETCH, AS ONES PATIENCE GREEN: THINGS A DJ DOES BLUE: ADJECTIVES USED IN GRAMMAR PURPLE: WHAT GREEN MIGHT MEAN Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #418) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Connections, game #418, are YELLOW: STRETCH, AS ONES PATIENCE STRAIN, TAX, TEST, TRY GREEN: THINGS A DJ DOES MIX, SAMPLE, SCRATCH, SPIN BLUE: ADJECTIVES USED IN GRAMMAR DIRECT, IRREGULAR, POSSESSIVE, PRESENT PURPLE: WHAT GREEN MIGHT MEAN ECOLOGICAL, JEALOUS, LUSH, NAUSEOUS My rating: Moderate My score: 1 mistake I spent most of today's game alternately puzzling over what any of the groups could be literally any of them then face-palming over their obvious nature once I eventually spotted them. The vast amounts of misdirection inserted cunningingly into the game by the NYT didn't help POSSESSIVE and JEALOUS could easily have gone together, so too SAMPLE and TEST and TRY (something scientific maybe?), or SPIN and TEST and TRY (as in 'give it a go'). None of those were among the real groups, though. Eventually I got the grammar one as you'd hope I might, given my choice of career then followed up with the DJ one. I did ultimately solve the purple one, too, although by then I would have got it by default anyway. So a tough but satisfying instalment of Connections overall. How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 1 August, game #417) YELLOW: PROMOTE HYPE, MARKET, PITCH, SELL GREEN: THROW CAST, CHUCK, FLING, HURL BLUE: BOOKSTORE SECTIONS FICTION, HUMOR, ROMANCE, TRAVEL PURPLE: ___ SOCKS ANKLE, CREW, SWEAT, TUBE 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. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-2-august- 2024 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .