NYT Connections Hints and Answers August 17, 2024 (Saturday)

The prestigious newspaper New York Times offers several brain-teasing games for their users including Wordle, The Crossword, NYT Mini, and many others. People enjoy playing them as it improves their memory and brain health.

NYT Connections was introduced in 2023, after seeing the success of Wordle. It also received huge followers and quickly became one of the best games available on NYT. The good thing about this game is you can play it for free which means you don’t need any subscription to play it but some games require a subscription.

What Is NYT Connections?

Connections is a word puzzle game that was published and developed by The New York Times as part of its game section. It debuted on June 12, 2023, and became fans’ favourite in no time. This game is the second most popular one that is released by The New York Times, following Wordle.

Wyna Liu is the editor at The Times and Connections’s puzzles. She creates new puzzles every day and brings them to the publications. The game can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices.

How to Play NYT Connections

You’re given 16 words with a grid in Connections. Your goal is to arrange them into four groups by figuring out the themes or links between them. The groups could be anything related to movies, accounting, exercise tools, etc.

Each of the four groups is colour-coded which tells users their difficulty level. The yellow group is the easiest category to figure out, followed by green, blue and then purple. The purple group is often the hardest one which involves wordplay.

Sometimes, a misleading clue is given to confuse people which is shown in the red category. This usually happens when a word can belong to more than one group, but there is only one right answer. If you get stuck at any point and feel confused, you can shuffle the words to rearrange them on the screen.

Liu suggested that players wait as long as they can before guessing because they’ll lose their lives if they make an incorrect guess. A user has four attempts to choose the correct link between the four groups of words but if the user makes four mistakes, the game is over. If you’re tired of finding the connection between the words and are looking for the answers, scroll down the page and get the answers below.

NYT Connections Hints August 17, 2024

If you still want to try it, here are the hints that will help you guess the answers. The hints are shared according to the category, from easiest to hardest. It will be easy to crack the answers, but if you still find it challenging, don’t worry check the answers below.

Today’s Connections words are: TONGUE, TAPE, RANCH, NECK, FRENCH, LANGUAGE, RESSING, COTTAGE, BANDAGE, CRAFTSMAN, MAKE OUT, SCISSORS, SPEECH, KISS, PRAIRIE, DIALECT

• Yellow Group – Spoken Communication
• Green Group – Canoodle
• Blue Group – First Aid Kit Items
• Purple Group – House Styles

NYT Connections Answers August 17, 2024

Sometimes, you crack the puzzles but sometimes you don’t. It happens to everyone; you’re not alone. If you are curious and want to cross-check your answers, Here are the solutions for NYT Connections. Don’t worry if you missed a few. Enjoy the game and have fun.

• Yellow Group – spoken communication (DIALECT, LANGUAGE, SPEECH, TONGUE)
• Green Group – canoodle (FRENCH, KISS, MAKE OUT, NECK)
• Blue Group – first aid kit items (BANDAGE, DRESSING, SCISSORS, TAPE)
• Purple Group – house styles (COTTAGE, CRAFTSMAN, PRAIRIE, RANCH)

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Note: Players can access the NYT Connections game online or by downloading the mobile app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.