Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Saturday, August 31

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections. getty Looking for Friday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here: Forbes Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Friday, August 30 By Kris Holt Hey, gang! Welcome to the weekend! It’s not a long one for me unfortunately — I’ll be back at work on Monday. Still, I’m planning to relax by my pool, catch up on reading, watch football of the European variety, prooobably check out some pro wrestling and play video games.

Hope you’ve got a fun few days in store! Anyway, today’s NYT Connections hints and answers 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 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. MORE FOR YOU Trump Vs. Harris 2024 Polls: Harris Leads By More Than 5 Points In Latest Survey Secret Service Puts $2.

5 Million Bounty On Most Wanted Hacker’s Head Apple iPhone 16 And iPhone 16 Plus: Everything We Know So Far 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. function loadConnatixScript(document) { if (!window.

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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. 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...

GREEK CHEF CROWN SPORTS MONTICELLO RINGS GARDEN EAGLE BUSINESS ROOTS TORCH WEDGE BARK ARTS SHIELD COMICS And the hints for today’s groups are: Yellow group — parts of a periodical Green group — aspects of a kind of large fauna Blue group — healthy eats Purple group — you might see these in your bag or after reaching into your pocket What Are Today’s Connections Groups? Need some extra help? Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory. Today’s groups are..

. Yellow group — newspaper sections Green group — tree features Blue group — kinds of salad Purple group — seen on backs of US coins 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 — newspaper sections (ARTS, BUSINESS, COMICS, SPORTS) Green group — tree features (BARK, CROWN, RINGS, ROOTS) Blue group — kinds of salad (CHEF, GARDEN, GREEK, WEDGE) Purple group — seen on backs of US coins (EAGLE, MONTICELLO, SHIELD, TORCH) No perfect game today, but the streak goes on.

That's eight wins on the trot. I got the yellow group first, and found that to be straightforward since I'm a newsman by trade. I was vaguely aware of MONTICELLO as something related to a U.

S. president. Jefferson, maybe? Again, I don't look up anything while playing Connections .

Given that the EAGLE, TORCH and SHIELD are common symbols of the U.S., I figured they went together in some way and my guess paid off.

I then realized there were types of salad, but the CROWN red herring caught me out at first. I then swapped that out for CHEF to get the blues. That left the greens, for which I did figure out the connection, for glory.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Sunday’s game if you need them. P.

S. There’s a new Star Wars game out this weekend. While I haven’t played nearly enough to have a firm opinion on it, I’ve enjoyed the few hours I’ve played of Star Wars Outlaws so far.

I can safely say that the developers have crafted an aesthetically beautiful take on the universe. It might be the best-looking Star Wars game to date:.