NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, August 2

Today's Connections

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Welcome back, Connectioneers! If you’re looking for thief pinch today’s puzzling NYT Connections puzzle, I’m present to connection my assistance pinch immoderate other clues and the solutions to the Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple groups.

Hey it’s the first Sunday of August, and we person a NYT Connections to solve. It’s a tricky one, too. I was alternatively stumped and very astir defeated by this one. So buckle up and let’s get to connecting the words!

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If you’re looking for Saturday’s Connections guide, it’s correct here.

How To Play Connections

Connections is the second-most celebrated NYT Games puzzle crippled extracurricular of the main crossword itself, and an highly fun, free offering that will get your encephalon moving each day. Play it correct here.

The extremity is to return a group of 16 words and find links betwixt 4 pairs of 4 of them. They could beryllium circumstantial categories of terms, aliases they could beryllium small world puzzles wherever words whitethorn travel earlier aliases aft them you request to fig out. And they get much analyzable from there.

There is only 1 group of correct answers for this, and you only get a definite number of tries truthful you can’t conscionable spam astir until you find something. There are trouble tiers coded by color, which will usually spell from yellow, blue/green to purple arsenic trouble increases, truthful cognize that going successful and erstwhile you commencement linking them together.

You prime the 4 words you deliberation are linked and either you will get a lick and a lit up statement that shows you really you were connected. If you’re close, it will show you that you’re 1 away. Again, 4 mistakes you lose, but if you want to cognize the answers without failing, either travel here, aliases delete your web cookies and effort again. If you want to play much puzzles, you tin get an NYT Games subscription to entree the afloat archives of each past puzzles.

NYT Connections Hints And Answers – Saturday August 2

Below, we’ll get into immoderate other hints for each Connections group – Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple – and past the charismatic clues and answers.

Here are today’s Connections words:

• OLGA
• PER
• SO
• FLAX
• THROUGH
• DARK
• VIA
• ACTUALLY
• LORD
• À LA
• WELL
• AIRPLANE
• ASEA
• LIKE
• BY
• BEAST

Here’s an Extra Hint for Each Connections Group

• 🟡Yellow group – Words you'd trim from a transcript without losing a thing.
• 🟢Green group – Passage, successful a sense.
• 🔵Blue group – Your telephone has one, truthful does that 1 feline astatine the gym.
• 🟣Purple group – Remove a missive and cheque your boarding pass.

One Word for Each Connections Group:

• 🟡Yellow group – Actually
• 🟢Green group – Per
• 🔵Blue group – Beast
• 🟣Purple group – FLAX

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

• Alright, the full spoilers follow present arsenic we get into what the groups are today:
• 🟡Yellow group – Filler Words
• 🟢Green group – Be Means Of
• 🔵Blue group – ____ Mode
• 🟣Purple group – Airport Codes Plus Starting Letter

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

• The full-on answers are beneath for each group, yet inserting the 4 words successful each category. Spoilers follow. The Connections answers are:
• 🟡Yellow group – LIKE, SO, WELL, ACTUALLY
• 🟢Green group – VIA, PER, THROUGH, BY
• 🔵Blue group – AIRPLANE, DARK, À LA, BEAST
• 🟣Purple group – F+LAX, L+ORD, A+SEA, O+LGA

Here’s the vanished puzzle successful the bid I solved it:

Today’s NYT Connections is simply a 5/5 connected the Connections Bot trouble scale truthful astir arsenic reliable arsenic they come. The nasty spot is LIKE, VIA, À LA, PER, BY, and THROUGH each reference arsenic "by measurement of" astatine first glance. Lots and tons of decoys. And the Purple is, arsenic per usual, very sneaky.

In a sense, the Purple words are the astir evidently Purple we’ve seen successful a minute. The show for the airdrome codes is semantic incoherence, the evident (ironic) mismatch. FLAX is simply a plant, OLGA is simply a due name, ASEA is simply a crossword-ish archaism meaning "at sea," and LORD is simply a title aliases an look “Oh lord”. These are each puzzle words, and the relationship is made first by noticing really nary of them link astatine each successful the first place.

In immoderate ways, the Blue words were harder simply because (at slightest for me) it took a agelong clip to recognize that you could adhd MODE to the extremity of each of them and I kept trying to compression A LA successful pinch PER and truthful forth.

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