NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Tuesday, August 13 (game #429)

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NYT Connections Today: Game #429 – Today’s Words

Tuesday’s Connections is slightly more difficult than some recent examples, so read on if you need some hints for it. What should you do once you’ve finished? 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.

NYT Connections Today (Game #429) – Today’s Words

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

  • MARKED
  • SAID
  • SPOKE
  • WHEEL
  • CLEAR
  • HANDLE
  • PORTER
  • PRONOUNCED
  • DESIGNATION
  • ROUGH
  • STRIKING
  • MONIKER
  • TOLD
  • SOBRIQUET
  • POWER
  • VOICED

NYT Connections Today (Game #429) – Hint #1 – Group Hints

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

  • Yellow: Uttered
  • Green: Type of name
  • Blue: Easily seen
  • Purple: Blank [word for dwelling]

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…

NYT Connections Today (Game #429) – Hint #2 – Group Answers

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: STATED
  • GREEN: NICKNAME
  • BLUE: OBVIOUS
  • PURPLE: ___HOUSE (THAT AREN’T HOUSES)

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections Today (Game #429) – The Answers

NYT Connections answers for game 429 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #429, are…

  • YELLOW: STATED SAID, SPOKE, TOLD, VOICED
  • GREEN: NICKNAME DESIGNATION, HANDLE, MONIKER, SOBRIQUET
  • BLUE: OBVIOUS CLEAR, MARKED, PRONOUNCED, STRIKING
  • PURPLE: ___HOUSE (THAT AREN’T HOUSES) PORTER, POWER, ROUGH, WHEEL
  • My rating: Moderate
  • My score: 1 mistake

That pesky misdirection from the NYT again tripped me up here – how was I supposed to know that yellow, ‘Stated’, included SAID, SPOKE, TOLD, and VOICED, but not PRONOUNCED?

Anyway, that aside, this one wasn’t too bad. I even managed to solve purple, the ‘[blank] houses’ one, in my head, before submitting it for real as the by-default final answer. It’s always satisfying when that happens.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.

Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Monday, 12 August, Game #428)

  • YELLOW: METAL ELEMENTS GOLD, LEAD, MERCURY, TIN
  • GREEN: MATTRESS SIZES FULL, KING, QUEEN, TWIN
  • BLUE: SLANG FOR TOILET CAN, HEAD, JOHN, THRONE
  • PURPLE: KINDS OF KNIVES BOWIE, BUTCHER, BUTTER, BUTTERFLY

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.