NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Sunday, August 4 (game #420)

Today’s Connections is not too bad, but there are hints below if you need them.

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.

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Marc McLaren

NYT Connections today (game #420) – today’s words

NYT Connections hints for game 420 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

SPORT
DRINK
BLUE
OOZE
DOWN
LLAMA
TIGER
GAME
DEEP
CHAMP
BRINY
EERIE
AMENABLE
AARDVARK
BUDDY
WILLING

NYT Connections today (game #420) – hint #1 – group hints

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

Yellow: Informal word for a youngster
Green: Can do
Blue: Deja vu beginning
Purple: Oceanic monikers

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 #420) – hint #2 – group answers

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

YELLOW: KIDDO
GREEN: UP FOR IT
BLUE: BEGINNING WITH DOUBLE LETTERS
PURPLE: NICKNAMES FOR THE SEA, WITH “THE”

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

NYT Connections today (game #420) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 420 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #420, are…

YELLOW: KIDDO BUDDY, CHAMP, SPORT, TIGER
GREEN: UP FOR IT AMENABLE, DOWN, GAME, WILLING
BLUE: BEGINNING WITH DOUBLE LETTERS AARDVARK, EERIE, LLAMA, OOZE
PURPLE: NICKNAMES FOR THE SEA, WITH “THE” BLUE, BRINY, DEEP, DRINK

My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect

I’m not sure I’ve ever before played a Connections puzzle where the yellow group was the one I didn’t solve. Yellow is supposedly the easiest of the four, and it usually is. But today, I had no clue of the KIDDO link between TIGER, CHAMP, SPORT and BUDDY. I just about spotted that SPORT, CHAMP and BUDDY might go together, but it would never in a million years have occurred to me to put TIGER with them. Yes, I have heard that usage – but it’s so far removed from anything I’d say to my own kids that it simply didn’t occur to me at the time.

Anyway, the good news for me was that the other three were all quite approachable, even the purple ‘Nicknames for the sea’ one. And as an aside, I’m a big fan of the ‘double letters at the start’ blue group; that’s a fun one for anyone who likes language.

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

Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 3 August, game #419)

YELLOW: BIT OF EXCITEMENT HIGH, KICK, RUSH, THRILL
GREEN: TOLERATE BEAR, STAND, STOMACH, TAKE
BLUE: NONSENSE BALONEY, BULL, BUNK, TRIPE
PURPLE: THINGS TO CLICK HEELS, MOUSE, REMOTE, TONGUE

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.

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