Monday’s Connections is here – and so are my tips. Read on if you need them.
What should you do when you’re done? Play some word games, of course. I also have daily articles with tips and answers for Wordle, Strands and Quordle if you need help with those too.
SPOILER ALERT: Information about today’s NYT Connections is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (Game No. 428) – the words of the day
The words of NYT Connections today are…
- BOWIE
- HEAD
- FULL
- BUTTER
- LEAD
- THRONE
- MERCURY
- KING
- QUEEN
- BUTTERFLY
- JOHN
- GOLD
- BUTCHER
- TWIN ROOM
- TIN
- MAY
NYT Connections Today (Game #428) – Clue #1 – Group Clues
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Difficult?
- Green: sleep well
- Blue: A very private place
- Purple: Sound
Need more advice?
Now we’re moving into the spoiler zone, but read on if you want to know the four topic answers for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #428) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: METAL ELEMENTS
- GREEN: MATTRESS SIZES
- BLUE: SLANG FOR TOILET
- PURPLE: KNIFE TYPES
That’s right, the answers are below, SO DON’T SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (Game No. 428) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections game No. 428 are…
- YELLOW: METAL ELEMENTS GOLD, LEAD, MERCURY, TIN
- GREEN: MATTRESS SIZES Full, King, Queen and Twin Rooms
- BLUE: SLANG FOR TOILET HEAD, JOHN, THRONE, CAN
- PURPLE: KNIFE TYPES BOWIE, BUTTER, BUTTER, BUTTERFLY
- My rating: Simply
- My result: Perfect
I’m no expert on knives, mattresses, metals, or, er, toilets, but all of the answers in today’s edition of Connections are so obvious that I had no problem reading through them, and I suspect many others will, too.
I immediately spotted green – KING, QUEEN, TWIN – but wasn’t sure if FULL was also a mattress type, so I left that alone and looked elsewhere. Then I spotted BOWIE, and other than David Bowie, the only connection I could think of was knife. Looking around, I saw BUTCHER, BUTTER, and BUTTERFLY, and solved purple immediately. The fact that that was supposedly the hardest says everything about how easy this puzzle was, and I quickly moved through the other groups and solved the mattress one by default, but had long ago realized it was definitely right.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Sunday, August 11, Game #427)
- YELLOW: BIG BOAT barge, ship, boat
- GREEN: EVERYTHING IS GREAT BEST, MASTER, GOAT, LEGEND
- BLUE: REGARDING ABOUT, REGARDING, ON, TOWARDS
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF BODY CHARACTERISTICS Rabbit, I, Shell, Marine
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games from the New York Times. You have to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a bit harder, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
The upside is that you don’t technically have to solve the final puzzle, as you can solve it by process of elimination. Plus, you’re allowed to make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little wiggle room.
It is a bit more complicated than Wordle, however, and has many ways to trick you. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that could obscure the answers.
It can be played for free on desktop or mobile via the NYT Games site.
