Subj : NYT Connections today hints and answers for Tuesday, August 20 ( To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Tue Aug 20 2024 00:15:04 NYT Connections today hints and answers for Tuesday, August 20 (game #436) Date: Mon, 19 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 ====================================================================== Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues. 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 #436) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) Today's NYT Connections words are CAT CRANK BLOW POP LION GRINCH WIND TURTLE CRAB REEL DRAFT RAM PUFF BULL TURN GUST NYT Connections today (game #436) - hint #1 - group hints What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Is there a breeze in here? Green: Twist Blue: Heavenly creatures Purple: Doctor of rhymes 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 #436) - hint #2 - group answers What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: RUSH OF WIND GREEN: ROTATE BLUE: ZODIAC SYMBOLS PURPLE: DR. SEUSS TITLE FIGURES Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #436) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Connections, game #436, are YELLOW: RUSH OF WIND BLOW, DRAFT, GUST, PUFF GREEN: ROTATE CRANK, REEL, TURN, WIND BLUE: ZODIAC SYMBOLS BULL, CRAB, LION, RAM PURPLE: DR. SEUSS TITLE FIGURES CAT, GRINCH, POP, TURTLE My rating: Moderate My score: 2 mistakes Damn you, NYT. Putting WIND in a puzzle with BLOW, DRAFT, GUST and PUFF is guaranteed to cause problems with anyone stupid enough to fall into your trap and that's exactly what I did. Damn you! To make matters worse, that yellow group was the easiest of the four today, although it was the one that cost me two mistakes. I had already spotted the Dr Seuss connection for purple, with POP (in socks), CAT (in the hat) and GRINCH, but couldn't work out what the final one was. So I left that and focused on the others, and after my brief foray into getting wind-related answers wrong, was able to solve yellow and green. That left five answers: BULL, LION, TURTLE, CRAB and RAM. One went with Dr Seuss, the other four formed the blue group. I deliberated for ages, then spotted the zodiac group, and was able to play TURTLE to complete purple by default. And in case you're wondering, it was Yertle the turtle How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, 19 August, game #435) YELLOW: MUSIC GENRES BLUES, COUNTRY, FOLK, ROCK GREEN: BRATWURST GO-WITHS BRAT, BUN, MUSTARD, SAUERKRAUT BLUE: YOGA POSES CHAIR, MOUNTAIN, TREE, WARRIOR PURPLE: STARTING WITH PIXAR MOVIES COCONUT, SOULMATE, UPDO, WALLET 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-20-august -2024 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .