Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Sunday Aug 3
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Connections game play online
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Sunday, 3rd August? We can’t really guarantee victory, but we can get you as close to the Connections solution as possible by giving you some hints, tips, word reveals, and theme reveals. No matter how complex the word puzzle, don’t give up just yet.
Of course, we’ll also drop the full Connections answers below. Just scroll down to find them!
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Sunday 3rd August
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Mirror | Beetle | Polo | Bird |
| Golf | Gorilla | Parrot | Cricket |
| Fever | Echo | Squash | Bug |
| Monkey | Fad | Copy | Craze |
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 Sunday 3rd August
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Find the imitations.
- Green: See any physical exercises?
- Blue: These words are akin to extreme enthusiasm.
- Purple: Look for parts of musical groups.
- Extra hint 1: Concerning the animals, try to think of secondary interpretations.
- Extra hint 2: The purple theme is the only one without a word starting with ‘C’.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Copy
- Green: Squash
- Blue: Fever
- Purple: Gorilla
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: Emulate
- Green: Sports
- Blue: Mania
- Purple: Single Animal In A Creatively Spelled Band Name
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 Sunday, 3rd August:
- Yellow: Emulate (Copy, Echo, Mirror, Parrot)
- Green: Sports (Cricket, Golf, Polo, Squash)
- Blue: Mania (Bug, Craze, Fad, Fever)
- Purple: Single Animal In A Creatively Spelled Band Name (Beetle, Bird, Gorilla, Monkey)
No, I didn’t know what to make of all the animals either – or at least not at first. Although I noticed a difference between species (parrot, beetle, gorilla, cricket) and type (bird, bug, monkey), but it seemed too loose a connection to hand in.
I found the yellow theme after a minute or so, which removed ‘parrot’ from the animal group. This prompted me to start looking for secondary meanings, and ‘bug’ and ‘cricket’ stood out.
I still had a tough time with bug, but the sports theme was fairly easy. All four of them are well-known, major sports, aren’t they? I was more surprised to discover the idea behind the purple theme, as I’m not especially interested in any of the bands.
