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A new new Connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone – which means some people always play ‘Today’s Games’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you are looking for Tuesday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New -Connections Tip and Response to Tuesday August 19th (Games #800).
Good morning! Let’s play connections, News Smart Wordpan that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need connections tips.
What are you going to do when you are done? Why, play some more word games of course. I also got daily strict tips and answers and quordle tips and answer articles if you also need help with them, while Marc’s Wordle Today page covers the original viral Word game.
Spoiler Warning: Information on new connections Today is below, so do not read on if you do not want to know the answers.
New -Connections Today (Play #801) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- Candy Cane
- Carousel
- Ceiling fan
- Villain
- ZEBRA
- Knit needles
- Crochet hook
- Barber Pole
- Yin-yang symbol
- Crowbar
- Piano keys
- Chopsticks
- Claves
- Domino
- Ski -poles
- Lazy Susan
New -Connections Today (Games #801) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: Monochrome objects
- GREEN: Two of a kind
- BLUE: To stare at these will make you dizzy
- Purple: Bend at the end
Need more clues?
We are fixed on spoiler territory now, but read on whether you want to know what the four theme answers are to today’s new connections puzzle …
New Connections Today (GAME #801) – Tip No. 2 – Group Product
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- Yellow: Black and white stuff
- Green: Couple rods
- Blue: Things that rotate around a vertical axis
- Purple: rods that curves at one end
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #801) – The answers
The answers to today’s connections, game #801, are …
- Yellow: Black and white stuff Domino, piano keys, yin-yang symbol, zebra
- Green: Couple rods Chopsticks, claves, knitting needles, skiing
- Blue: Things that rotate around a vertical axis Barber Pole, carousel, ceiling fans, lazy Susan
- Purple: rods that curves at one end Candy Cane, Crochet Hook, Crook, Crowbar
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 Error
Occasionally, connections throw us a curve ball and today was one of those days with 16 tiles of random items from a hairdressing rod to the Yin-Yang symbol.
As is often the case with these kinds of connections, I suffered temporary dyslexia and could not see a single link.
My mistake was to put together knitting needles and crochet hook with chopsticks and candy pipes, my thinking is that they are all kinds of sticks.
With a deep breath, I began to see some more promising patterns and got things that rotate around a vertical axis mainly because of lazy Susan, an object I love, as it sounds like such an insulting thing to call a rotating plate.
Magically, what was once confusing was a wonderful sense of enlightenment that is one of the greatest joys of connections.
Yesterday’s new -connections answer (Tuesday 19th August, Game #800)
- Yellow: Completely the speaker Blabbermouth, Chatterbox, Prattler, Windbag
- Green: Forted wines Marsala, Port, Sherry, Vermouth
- Blue: ___ Rock Classic, small, plymouth, the
- Purple: Starts with ways of moving fast Dartmouth, Dashboard, Swivelwheel, Rushmore
What are new connections?
New Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four objects that share something in common, and each group has another level of difficulty: green is light, yellow a little harder, blue often quite hard and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you do not have to technically solve the last one, as you can answer one by an elimination process. In addition, you can make up to four errors, giving you a little bit of breathing room.
However, it is a little more involved than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to get up with tricks. For example, be careful on gay and other word games that can hide the answers.
It can be played free of charge via the new Games website on desktop or mobile.
