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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Thursday, August 8 (game #424)

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4 months ago

August 8, 2024

Thursday’s Connections puzzle is another fairly easy one – and I seem to have been saying that a lot lately. But if you do find yourself needing some hints, read on…

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.

Your Connections expert

Marc McLaren

NYT Connections today (game #424) – today’s words

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NYT Connections hints for game 424 on a purple background — (Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

TALK
PIRATE
PILLAR
PARROT
HAM
QUOTE
CANNONBALL
ANCHOR
SATELLITE
ECHO
CORNERSTONE
JACKKNIFE
BACKFLIP
BACKBONE
BELLYFLOP
REPEAT

NYT Connections today (game #424) – hint #1 – group hints

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: Splashdown!
Green: Say it again
Blue: Support
Purple: Blank [broadcast device]

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 #424) – hint #2 – group answers

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: SPLASHY WAYS TO ENTER A POOL
GREEN: REITERATE
BLUE: MAINSTAY
PURPLE: ___ RADIO

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #424) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 424 on a purple background — (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #424, are…

YELLOW: SPLASHY WAYS TO ENTER A POOL BACKFLIP, BELLYFLOP, CANNONBALL, JACKKNIFE
GREEN: REITERATE ECHO, PARROT, QUOTE, REPEAT
BLUE: MAINSTAY ANCHOR, BACKBONE, CORNERSTONE, PILLAR
PURPLE: ___ RADIO HAM, PIRATE, SATELLITE, TALK

My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect

Connections has been really easy lately, right? Or maybe I’ve just got better at solving it, 400-odd games in? Or maybe I just got lucky… Either way, I solved it in double-fast time, and in almost entirely the ‘wrong’ order, with purple first. Not that purple was a particularly tough one today; yes, it was a [blank] something answer, but the radio-related words were all pretty obvious, with HAM and PIRATE standing out to me right away. With that out of the way the others fell into place swiftly.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.

Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 7 August, game #423)

YELLOW: CRAM JAM, PACK, RAM, STUFF
GREEN: RESTAURANT JOBS COOK, DISHWASHER, HOST, SERVER
BLUE: ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM MICROWAVE, RADIO, VISIBLE, X-RAY
PURPLE: THINGS WITH BITS BRIDLE, BYTE, COMEDIAN, DRILL

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.