Today’s connections
Credit: Now / Erik Cain
Looking for a little help with your Sunday Connections Puzzle? If you are looking for extra instructions – or the answers – you have come together. Below you will find an extra set of hints, the categories for each group and finally the solution for today’s puzzle.
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Okay, it’s time to group a few words!
If you are looking for the Connections Guide of Saturday, It’s here.
How to play connections
Connections is the second most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside the most important crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free range that your brain will get moving every day. Play it here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They can be specific categories of terms, or they can be small world puzzles where words can come before or after them that you have to sort out. And from there they become more complicated.
There is only one set of correct answers for this, and you only get a certain number of attempts, so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty levels coded by color, which is usually from yellow, blue/green to purple as the difficulty increases, so know that it goes in and when you start linking them together.
You choose the four words that you think they are linked and you get a solution and an enlightened row that shows you how you were connected. If you are close, it will tell you that you are one. Again, four errors that you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, come here, or remove your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get a NYT game subscription to gain access to the full archives of all former puzzles.
What are today’s connections for Sunday 10 August?
These are the hints that are recorded on the puzzle board itself, but then we will come up with a few hints and eventually the answers in the spoiler area. First, here are the connecting words of today:
- CRANE
- Lounge
- BUT
- ROLE
- TABLE
- DESTROY
- Beehive
- Vegetable
- BREAD
- Peak
- Pinch
- Sweep
- Kill
- Cobbler
- Counter
- BAR
Hints for the connecting groups today are:
- 🟡 Gyellow group – We do these things with our phone.
- 🔵blue group – If you go out for dinner.
- 🟢Green Group – Take a load off.
- 🟣Purple Group – Eat it every day for part of a balanced diet, first add a letter.
What are the connecting groups of today?
Okay, the Full spoilers Follow here when we comment on what the groups are today:
- 🟡 Gyellow group – Touchscreen gestures
- 🔵blue group – Restaurant Seat Options
- 🟢Green Group – Relaxed
- 🟣Purple Group – Vegetables with first letter removed
What are the answers of today’s connections?
The full answers are below for each group and ultimately insert the four words in each category. Follow spoilers If you don’t want that far. The answers of the connections are:
- 🟡 Gyellow group – Squeeze, scroll, wipe, tap
- 🔵blue group – Bar, stand, counter, table
- 🟢Green Group – Chill, loaf, lounge, veg
- 🟣Purple Group – Ale, eek, hive, quash
Today’s connections
Screenshot: Erik Kain
This was fairly simple, not two ways. I first saw all the sitting words. Bar, stand, counter and table are all fairly clear places where you sit when you go to a restaurant or bar.
I suppose the crane of the yellow group was a bit of a red herring, because there is also a tap in a bar, but it was still different enough to clearly hear the pinch of the yellow group, Scroll and Veeg. We use our phones almost non-stop, so these are well-known gestures.
Lounge was a kind of red herring, neatly fitting with tap and bar, but still different enough not to belong completely. Instead, it is part of the other relaxation words in the green group: bread, chill and vegetables. The latter is an indication of the purple group:
(K) Beer, (L) Eek, (c) Bijenkorf and (s) quash. I had no missed guesses this time. I still think that this game needs a poison word to keep things interesting. It is much less challenging than a good pips puzzle, that’s for sure!
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