If you have never played it, Connections is a daily word game by The New York Times which has been a huge success since its online release in June 2023.

The puzzle is used by tens of millions of people worldwide and in its first year 55.2 million people completed a game without making any mistakes.

The answers for Tuesday Connections will be revealed at the end of this article, so scroll down carefully if you want to find them out for yourself.

How to play “Connections”

Every day, Connections Players are presented with a new 16-word puzzle that they must divide into four categories based on common characteristics.

These groups are color-coded according to difficulty: yellow (easiest), green, blue, and purple (most difficult). When you correctly identify a group, those words are highlighted and removed from the grid. The corresponding color indicates how challenging the group should be.

The connecting themes can come from a wide range of categories – from plant species to movie series. If a player guesses incorrect word groups four times, the game ends and they are defeated.

Players can shuffle and rearrange the board to make guessing the connections easier. To make things a little more difficult, sometimes a word can belong to more than one category – but there is only one correct answer.

Accordingly Connections Editor Wyna Liu, if you have five cards that all seem to belong in the same category, your best move is probably to find another category and then go back to the original category after some words have been eliminated.

Liu said: “This could take one of those extra cards out of the running, or at least remove some cards from the board, making other categories easier to identify.”

‘Connections’ No. 429 Notes for Tuesday, August 13

Newsweek is here with some tips to help you make today’s Connections Categories.

Yellow: All these words refer to language.

Green: The answers in this category refer to different names that people give each other.

Blue: With each answer word you can describe special features.

Purple: These words come before the word for a person’s place of residence.

“Connections” No. 429 – Answers for Tuesday, August 13

Yellow Category: SPECIFIED

Yellow words: Said, spoken, told, expressed

Green category: NICKNAME

Green words: designation, name, nickname, nickname

Blue Category: OBVIOUS

Blue words: Clear, distinct, distinctive, striking

Purple Category: ____HOUSE

Purple words: Porter, Power, Rau, Wheel

Did you guess the answers correctly? If so, congratulations. If not, there is no need to worry because there will be another opportunity to Connections morning.

Connections will be published at midnight in your local time zone and Newsweek I’ll be back tomorrow with another round of tips and hints.

If you can’t wait, why not try these other popular online word puzzle games?