NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Wednesday, August 28 (game #444)

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.

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.

Your Connections expert

Marc McLaren

NYT Connections today (game #444) – today’s words

NYT Connections hints for game 444 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

MARTINI
TEETH
HUMOR
PENDULUM
STEPS
TEA BAG
MONKEY BARS
TETHERBALL
TEETOTALER
SLIDE
BOOMER
DESERT
SWINGS
YO-YO
TEETER-TOTTER
BLUES

NYT Connections today (game #444) – hint #1 – group hints

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

Yellow: Have fun, kids
Green: Just hanging!
Blue: Not wet
Purple: [word for young child] blank

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 #444) – hint #2 – group answers

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

YELLOW: PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT
GREEN: FOUND AT THE END OF A STRING/CORD
BLUE: DESCRIBED AS DRY
PURPLE: BABY ___

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

NYT Connections today (game #444) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 444 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #444, are…

YELLOW: PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT MONKEY BARS, SLIDE, SWINGS, TEETER-TOTTER
GREEN: FOUND AT THE END OF A STRING/CORD PENDULUM, TEA BAG, TETHERBALL, YO-YO
BLUE: DESCRIBED AS DRY DESERT, HUMOR, MARTINI, TEETOTALER
PURPLE: BABY ___ BLUES, BOOMER, STEPS, TEETH

My rating: Moderate
My score: 1 mistake

Blank-style Connections are often the ones that defeat me. In hindsight, the one included today – BABY [BLANK] – should have been easy. After all, Baby boomer, baby steps, baby blues and baby teeth are all established phrases. But in the heat of Connections battle, those links simply didn’t occur to me.

Still, it didn’t hurt me today. Yellow – playground equipment – was an easy one, and both green and blue were comfortable solves after a bit of thought.

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

Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 27 August, game #443)

YELLOW: EXPLOSIVE SOUND BOOM, CRASH, ROAR, THUNDER
GREEN: CHILI PEPPER QUALITY FIRE, HEAT, KICK, SPICE
BLUE: CLASSIC BARBERSHOP SUPPLIES BRUSH, CAPE, CLIPPERS, GEL
PURPLE: KINDS OF CARDS BASEBALL, MAGIC, SET, TAROT

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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