Need answers to the New York Times Connect puzzle? To me, Wordle is more like a vocabulary test, while Connections is more like brain teasers. You are given 16 words and asked to sort them into four groups that are related to each other in some way. Sometimes they’re obvious, but game editor Wyna Liu knows how to trick you with single words that fit multiple groups. Read on for today’s linking tips and answers.
Want more gaming answers? This is today’s answer to Wordle and this is the answer to Strands.
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Today’s link group tip
Here are four tips for connecting the groups in today’s puzzle, from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.
Yellow group tips: I’m not here.
Green group tips: beside you
Blue group tips: It’s still rock ‘n’ roll to me.
Purple group tips: ____ monkey.
Answers to today’s link group
Yellow group: does not exist
Green group: supporter
Blue group: Rock genre.
Purple group: shock____.
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What’s the answer to today’s link?
NYT Connections completed the puzzle on August 9, 2024.
Yellow words in today’s connection
Topic does not exist. The four answers are absent, elsewhere, gone, and gone.
Green words in today’s link
The subject is a supporter. The four answers are Advocate, Champion, Cheerleader, and Exponent.
Blue words in today’s connection
The theme is rock style. The four answers are glam, goth, metal and punk.
Purple words in today’s connection
The theme is Shock ____. The four answers are Terror, Movement, Value, and Wave.
How to play connect
It’s easy to play. Winning is hard. Look at these 16 words and mentally assign them to the four relevant groups. Click on the four words that you think go together. The groups are color-coded, but you don’t know what’s going where until you see the answer. The yellow group is the easiest, then the green group, then the blue group, and the purple group is the hardest. Look carefully at the words and think about related terms. Sometimes the connection is only with part of the word. At one time, the four words were grouped because each started with the name of a rock band, including “Rushmore” and “Journeyman.”
