If you have a Connections Want to maintain your winning streak or start a new one, Newsweek has provided some assistance to help you win.

Started by The New York Times In June last year, the popular puzzle game became the publication’s second most played game, behind Wordleanother word puzzle.

For the uninitiated: Connections challenges players to uncover threads that connect a series of words. Instructions on how to play are below. Clues and answers to today’s puzzle can be found towards the end of the article.

How to play “Connections”

Connections Players must group 16 words into four categories based on their association. For example, Friday’s game linked the words “monitor,” “display,” “screen,” and “terminal” under the category “visual interface.”

Each of the four categories is marked with a color that also indicates its level of difficulty. Yellow is the easiest category, followed by green, blue, and purple. However, the puzzles are rarely easy and use homophones and wordplay, among other things, to challenge players.

The familiarity of the words used and how often they appear in modern life are also factors in difficulty, although less common words are not only used in the more difficult categories. “Element overlap,” where one word can be linked to multiple categories, is another possibility Connections tests players.

If players get stuck, they can click the Shuffle button, which will change the order of the words on the screen.

Wyna Liu, crossword editor at The New York Just who was asked Connectionstold Newsweek about their recommended tips for playing the game.

“My best advice is to wait as long as possible before guessing,” Liu said.

“You may see the board and have already fully identified the category because you see five words that could belong in that category,” she added. “Don’t try to guess the four words in that category because even though you know what the fifth member is, you don’t know which of the four it might not be,” which will ultimately waste a turn.

“Don’t do what I do, which is ‘anger release,'” Liu said.

The answers for today’s Connections The puzzle will be revealed at the end of this article, so scroll carefully if you want to solve it yourself.

‘Connections’ #440 Notes for Saturday, August 24

Newsweek has some tips to help you understand today’s Connections Categories.

Yellow: These words are associated with gossip and rumors.

Green: Each of these answers represents someone who is quiet.

Blue: To find these answers, think about renting vehicles.

Purple: These words contain hidden words.

“Connections” No. 440 – Answers for Saturday, August 24

Yellow Category: HEARSAY

Yellow words: Rumbling, speculation, conversations, whispers

Green Category: MOVE HIDDENLY

Green words: Crawling, sliding, stealing, tiptoeing

Blue Category: CAR RENTALS

Blue words: Budget, Enterprise, National, Frugal

Purple Category: END WITH CHEMICAL ELEMENTS

Purple words: Surrounded, Jargon, Latin, Requests

Did you guess the answers correctly? Then congratulations. If not, there will be another chance to solve the puzzle tomorrow.

Connections will be published at midnight in your local time zone. Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips for each new game.