Looking for a different day?
A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, August 22 (game #803).
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 Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
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 #804) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- SMARTWATCH
- BOWL
- OIL
- CHICANERY
- COOLANT
- PODCAST
- HIPPODROME
- VAPE
- LEGERDEMAIN
- CRYPTO
- DECEIT
- FUEL
- COLISEUM
- SUBTERFUGE
- BRAKE FLUID
- STADIUM
NYT Connections today (game #804) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Open up the hood to add
- GREEN: Large venues
- BLUE: Shenanigans
- PURPLE: 21st century stuff
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 #804) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: LIQUIDS YOU PUT INTO CARS
- GREEN: ARENA
- BLUE: SKULDUGGERY
- PURPLE: MODERN INVENTIONS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #804) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #804, are…
- YELLOW: LIQUIDS YOU PUT INTO CARS BRAKE FLUID, COOLANT, FUEL, OIL
- GREEN: ARENA BOWL, COLISEUM, HIPPODROME, STADIUM
- BLUE: SKULDUGGERY CHICANERY, DECEIT, LEGERDEMAIN, SUBTERFUGE
- PURPLE: MODERN INVENTIONS CRYPTO, PODCAST, SMARTWATCH, VAPE
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I imagine the category MODERN INVENTIONS will get some heat.
It’s a vague link, as there are countless modern inventions and other than them being “modern” there is nothing else that connects them.
Also, the word modern is subjective – the beginnings of CRYPTO, VAPE and PODCAST were around 20 years ago, while there were types of SMARTWATCH in the 1990s.
This quibble aside, the purple group was easy to get, as they are indeed all current preoccupations and distinct from the other 12 tiles.
Noticeably, this was a day without SUBTERFUGE or CHICANERY, which has me thinking that there are two possible reasons for this. Either Connections is going easy on us because it’s a Saturday, or they have something terrible planned for us tomorrow. I predict the latter.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, August 22, game #803)
- YELLOW: U.S. PRESIDENTS ADAMS, FORD, GRANT, WASHINGTON
- GREEN: ACTORS WHOSE LAST NAMES ARE ALSO VERBS CHEVY CHASE, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, GEOFFREY RUSH, TOM CRUISE
- BLUE: KINDS OF POKER DRAW, OMAHA, STRIP, STUD
- PURPLE: PROPER NOUNS AFTER GERUNDS IN ’90S MOVIE TITLES AMY, JOHN MALKOVICH, LAS VEGAS, PRIVATE RYAN
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.