Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Each day’s game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today’s Connections hints and answers, here are Thursday’s:
Hey there, Connectors! We’re knocking on the door of the weekend, but before we get there, let’s add another win to your Conenctions streak.
I wasn’t feeling great this past weekend, so I didn’t do too much. It wasn’t entirely a wasted couple of days though, as I finally got around to finishing up the detective drama series Dept. Q on Netflix.
I enjoyed it for the most part. I thought it was well-constructed and absorbing. But I don’t really think it would have worked without an actor of Matthew Goode’s caliber in the lead role. His character, Carl Morck, is an absolutely miserable git, a truly tough nut to crack and a toxic presence to many of those around him (arguably with good reason, in fairness). Don’t get me wrong, the character is well-crafted and written, but if it hadn’t been for Goode’s talent and innate charm, the whole show could have crumbled apart around Morck.
That said, it’s not just Morck; many of the main characters are quite sullen. Several bear deep wounds and are dealing with past and/or present trauma, even if they are quick with a joke. So it’s perhaps little wonder that the production team relocated the setting from Denmark (in the source novels) to Scotland.
I love my homeland dearly, but it often seems that for every truly delightful, warm person in the country, there’s someone with a personality just like one of Dept. Q’s main characters. (Also, Rose and Akram are my favorites, and I am very glad there’s a second season on the way.)
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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, August 22 are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT’s website or Games app.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- DIPSY
- DREAM
- CHEESE
- SATELLITE DISH
- LA-LA
- TELETUBBY
- NO-NO
- YANKEE
- BOO-BOO
- RADIO TOWER
- NEVER NEVER
- FLUB
- INSECT
- FANTASY
- GAFFE
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- 🟨 Yellow group — former commanders-in-chief
- 🟩 Green group — telling these to just do something might be enough to get a good performance
- 🟦 Blue group — you might feel flush with these… or even blush at one of them
- 🟪 Purple group — action-packed pictures, perhaps
One Word For Each Connections Group
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let’s take a look at one word for each group.
Today’s Connections word hints are…
- 🟨 Yellow group — GRANT
- 🟩 Green group — TOM CRUISE
- 🟦 Blue group — OMAHA
- 🟪 Purple group — AMY
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Today’s Connections groups are…
- 🟨 Yellow group — U.S. presidents
- 🟩 Green group — actors whose last names are also verbs
- 🟦 Blue group — kinds of poker
- 🟪 Purple group — proper nouns after gerunds in ’90s movie titles
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- 🟨 Yellow group — U.S. presidents (ADAMS, FORD, GRANT, WASHINGTON)
- 🟩 Green group — actors whose last names are also verbs (CHEVY CHASE, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, GEOFFREY RUSH, TOM CRUISE)
- 🟦 Blue group — kinds of poker (DRAW, OMAHA, STRIP, STUD)
- 🟪 Purple group — proper nouns after gerunds in ’90s movie titles (AMY, JOHN MALKOVICH, LAS VEGAS, PRIVATE RYAN)
Well, this is a fun grid! Lots of pop culture references here, including to AMY ADAMS.
I didn’t waste any time in getting the poker variants. OMAHA and STRIP (😏) were my entry into that group. The four presidents were easy enough to spot too. So that took care of the blues, then the yellows.
As I looked at the remaining words, the purples jumped out. Chasing AMY, Saving PRIVATE RYAN and Leaving LAS VEGAS were all clear enough. Being JOHN MALKOVICH (a film I loved as a teenager) completed the set.
That left the remaining actors for the greens. I wasn’t sure what linked them – I didn’t recall CHEVY CHASE being an Oscar nominee, for instance – but as I looked at the surnames, I figured it out.
I enjoyed this one! Fun way to close out the week. A perfect game takes me up to 175 wins on the trot. Just 25 away from 200 now. Here’s my grid for today:
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That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. I’ll be back with you all here on Monday. In the meantime, you can check out my weekend editions of this column in my newsletter, Pastimes.
I’m gonna round things off for the week with one last Queens of the Stone Age number. “Make it Wit Chu” is a funky, bluesy love song. I don’t smoke, but I feel like I need a cigarette every time I listen to it:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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