Today's NYT 'Connections' Hints And Answers For Monday, August 12

Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.

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ForbesToday’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, August 11By Kris Holt

Hey, everyone! I hope you had a fantastic weekend. I had a great time at the local Pride parade on Sunday. It was so invigorating to see thousands of LGBTQIA+ folks enjoying themselves and so many people supporting them without a hint of trouble.

Anyway, today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

And the hints for today’s groups are:

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Today’s groups are...

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Today’s Connections answers are...

My streak is now up to 22 wins after back-to-back perfect games.

BOWIE, MERCURY and JOHN was a pretty obvious red herring since there wasn't any word that would make sense with those singers. LEAD and MERCURY, however, made the yellows pretty clear to me. QUEEN and TWIN then made the greens evident.

I had a sense of what the last two groups were, but it took a minute to figure out the blues. BUTTER, somehow, was the kind of knife I was overlooking. I figured out the blues before submitting that group too.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Tuesday’s game if you need them.

P.S. I of course had to include a song from Freddie Mercury, Elton John or David Bowie today, so let's go with one of my favorites from the latter:

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