Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday Aug 1
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Connections game play online
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Friday, 1st August? You started today’s puzzle full of hope, and now you’re stuck in a Connections quagmire? Don’t worry about it, that sort of thing happens to the best of us.
It’s not yet time for despair; this handy guide will provide you with a theme reveal, a word reveal, a list of hints, and a nudge or two to uncover today’s secret word-links. Good luck!
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Friday 1st August
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Playwright | Dean | Roof | Temple |
| Faculty | Wreath | Bent | Sword |
| Garland | Hay | Gift | Wrap |
| Jackpot | Flair | Gable | Road |
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Friday 1st August
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Find replacements for ‘having a natural talent’.
- Green: It’s about their pronunciation.
- Blue: Look for names.
- Purple: These words are part of four very similar idioms.
- Extra hint 1: The first word in the purple theme’s idioms is a synonym for ‘punch’.
- Extra hint 2: Every theme contains two words starting with the same letter.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Faculty
- Green: Sword
- Blue: Garland
- Purple: Road
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups?
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Aptitude
- Green: Silent “W”
- Blue: Legends Of Classic Hollywood
- Purple: Hit The ___
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Friday, 1st August:
- Yellow: Aptitude (Bent, Faculty, Flair, Gift)
- Green: Silent “W” (Playwright, Sword, Wrap, Wreath)
- Blue: Legends Of Classic Hollywood (Dean, Gable, Garland, Temple)
- Purple: Hit The ___ (Hay, Jackpot, Road, Roof)
I normally don’t do too well with ‘famous people’ themes in Connections puzzles, but today’s Hollywood legends formed the first connection I spotted. ‘Dean’ made me look for names (following a brief distraction caused by ‘faculty’), and Judy Garland, Shirley Temple, and Clark Gable just popped into mind from there.
Finding the second solution among today’s Connections themes – now that was a challenge. I caught ‘gift’ and ‘flair’ fairly early, but it took longer than I care to admit to add the final yellow group members.
Only when I actively started to search for idioms did I uncover the purple theme. I never realized the green one was about the silent letter – I should have paid more attention to the many ‘wr’ combos within those words.
