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Today's Connections is not too bad, but there are hints below if you need them.
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.
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NYT Connections today (game #420) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- SPORT
- DRINK
- BLUE
- OOZE
- DOWN
- LLAMA
- TIGER
- GAME
- DEEP
- CHAMP
- BRINY
- EERIE
- AMENABLE
- AARDVARK
- BUDDY
- WILLING
NYT Connections today (game #420) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Informal word for a youngster
- Green: Can do
- Blue: Deja vu beginning
- Purple: Oceanic monikers
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…
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NYT Connections today (game #420) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: KIDDO
- GREEN: UP FOR IT
- BLUE: BEGINNING WITH DOUBLE LETTERS
- PURPLE: NICKNAMES FOR THE SEA, WITH “THE”
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NYT Connections today (game #420) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #420, are…
- YELLOW: KIDDO BUDDY, CHAMP, SPORT, TIGER
- GREEN: UP FOR IT AMENABLE, DOWN, GAME, WILLING
- BLUE: BEGINNING WITH DOUBLE LETTERS AARDVARK, EERIE, LLAMA, OOZE
- PURPLE: NICKNAMES FOR THE SEA, WITH “THE” BLUE, BRINY, DEEP, DRINK
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I'm not sure I've ever before played a Connections puzzle where the yellow group was the one I didn't solve. Yellow is supposedly the easiest of the four, and it usually is. But today, I had no clue of the KIDDO link between TIGER, CHAMP, SPORT and BUDDY. I just about spotted that SPORT, CHAMP and BUDDY might go together, but it would never in a million years have occurred to me to put TIGER with them. Yes, I have heard that usage – but it's so far removed from anything I'd say to my own kids that it simply didn't occur to me at the time.
Anyway, the good news for me was that the other three were all quite approachable, even the purple 'Nicknames for the sea' one. And as an aside, I'm a big fan of the 'double letters at the start' blue group; that's a fun one for anyone who likes language.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 3 August, game #419)
- YELLOW: BIT OF EXCITEMENT HIGH, KICK, RUSH, THRILL
- GREEN: TOLERATE BEAR, STAND, STOMACH, TAKE
- BLUE: NONSENSE BALONEY, BULL, BUNK, TRIPE
- PURPLE: THINGS TO CLICK HEELS, MOUSE, REMOTE, TONGUE
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 hom*ophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
Marc McLaren
Global Editor in Chief
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He's also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).
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