NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, August 19 (game #435)
Our clues will help you solve the NYT's Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going
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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.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years. He's authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a daily today's Wordle answer column and a detailed analysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously.
NYT Connections today (game #435) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- FOLK
- WARRIOR
- COCONUT
- TREE
- SOULMATE
- ROCK
- CHAIR
- BUN
- MOUNTAIN
- MUSTARD
- COUNTRY
- UPDO
- SAUERKRAUT
- WALLET
- BLUES
- BRAT
NYT Connections today (game #435) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Listen up
- Green: Sausage feast
- Blue: Twist and turn
- Purple: Animated classics
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…
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NYT Connections today (game #435) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MUSIC GENRES
- GREEN: BRATWURST GO-WITHS
- BLUE: YOGA POSES
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH PIXAR MOVIES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #435) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #435, are…
- YELLOW: MUSIC GENRES BLUES, COUNTRY, FOLK, ROCK
- GREEN: BRATWURST GO-WITHS BRAT, BUN, MUSTARD, SAUERKRAUT
- BLUE: YOGA POSES CHAIR, MOUNTAIN, TREE, WARRIOR
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH PIXAR MOVIES COCONUT, SOULMATE, UPDO, WALLET
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
Wow, what is the NYT doing? After yesterday's very, very difficult Connections puzzle – which I failed – comes one that's arguably even harder. I solved this one, but only with huge amounts of luck and – I'll be honest here – what could amount to cheating.
And it all started so well. Yellow, MUSIC GENRES, stood out right away. But that was as easy as it got. With 12 words left I couldn't assemble any into any more groups. Nothing worked. Eventually, I realized that UPDO and WALLET both contained Pixar movies – UP and WALL-E – but I couldn't find two more. I guessed it was probably COCONUT (COCO) and SOULMATE (SOUL or MATE) simply because I couldn't see suitable words within the other answers. But I wasn't 100% sure, so I checked Google for a list of Pixar movies and yes, those two were among them. Is that cheating? Possibly, but it was necessary today.
That still left me with eight seemingly unrelated words, but I did have three that appeared to go together in SAUERKRAUT, BUN and MUSTARD, which appeared to all be food-related. However, I couldn't think of what the fourth could be, so guessed randomly and on my final chance got BRAT as the fourth. No, I would never have realized BRAT was a shorthand for BRATWURST (possibly because I'm vegetarian) but even if it is, surely it shouldn't be included here as a BRATWURST GO-WITH? It doesn't 'go with' bratwurst, it is bratwurst!
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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 18 August, game #434)
- YELLOW: ALARM CLOCK BUTTONS ALARM, HOUR, SNOOZE, TIME SET
- GREEN: “HERE’S A THOUGHT ...” PERHAPS, SAY, SUPPOSE, WHAT IF
- BLUE: CANDY PIECES KISS, NERD, RUNT, WHOPPER
- PURPLE: SEVEN DWARFS MINUS LAST LETTER DO, DOPE, GRUMP, SLEEP
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.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He's also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).