Today's NYT ‘Connections' Hints And Answers For Sunday, August 10th
Looking for Saturday's NYT Connections hints, clues and answers instead? You can find them here: Forbes NYT 'Connections' Hints And Answers For August 9 By Paul Tassi
Looking for a little help with your Sunday Connections puzzle? The New York Times has given us a pretty tricky one today, so if you're looking for extra clues – or the answers – you've come to the right place. Below you'll find an extra set of clues, the categories for each group and, finally, the solution to today's puzzle.
It's another lovely weekend in August, though I'd be lying if I said I wasn't itching for some cooler weather at this point. It's been hot with nary a cloud in the sky, and all I'm asking for is a little rain. Or a lot of rain. Moisture of any kind would be lovely. Then again, in a few months when snow is piled high and it's too cold to go outside, I'll be pining for summer sun. We always want what we can't have.
Be sure to check out my streaming guide if you're looking for some new shows or movies to check out this weekend. There's a lot of good stuff out at the beginning of the month. Forbes What To Watch This Weekend: New Shows And Movies To Stream On Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Apple TV And More By Erik Kain
In any case, we have a Connections to solve, so let's group some words!
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can't just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you're close, it will tell you that you're one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles.
These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers. First, here are today's Connections words: BIOPIC
CALCIUM
CHEMISE
CLUSTER
COLLECT
CONCENTRATE
FAN
GROUP
HISTORICAL
JUICE
PULP
PULL
SCIENCE
SWAY
TRIGLYCERIDE
WEIGHT 🟡Yellow group – If you are a person of status in a group, you have this with others.
If you are a person of status in a group, you have this with others. 🔵Blue group – Different genres novels might fall under.
Different genres novels might fall under. 🟢Green group – What you're trying to do with the words in this puzzle.
What you're trying to do with the words in this puzzle. 🟣Purple group – The beginning of these words are the beginnings of other words related to education.
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today: 🟡Yellow group – Influence
Influence 🔵Blue group – Kinds of fiction
Kinds of fiction 🟢Green group – Amass
Amass 🟣Purple group – Starting with math and science classes, for short
The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are: 🟡Yellow group – Juice, Pull, Sway, Weight
Juice, Pull, Sway, Weight 🔵Blue group – Fan, Historical, Pulp, Science
Fan, Historical, Pulp, Science 🟢Green group – Cluster, Collect, Concentrate, Science
Cluster, Collect, Concentrate, Science 🟣Purple group – BIOpic, CALCium, CHEMise, TRIGlyceride
Today's Connections Screenshot: Erik Kain
This was definitely a trickier NYT Connections than I've seen the past few Sundays. I started off with my own area of expertise: Fiction. As soon as I saw PULP and HISTORICAL I was pretty sure we were talking about pulp fiction and historical fiction, and it was just a matter of looking for a couple more words that fit. FAN fiction and SCIENCE fiction did the trick. Blue group was done in a jiffy.
From here, I was less certain. CONCENTRATE and JUICE seemed to go together. And you get CALCIUM from orange juice. I also thought some of the words might fit with measurements, like WEIGHT and GROUP. Eventually, I gathered the green words together: CLUSTER, COLLECT, CONCENTRATE and GROUP are all words about focusing or amassing a quantity. Green group done.
The last two were confusing, mostly because I really wasn't sure how something like CHEMISE fit into the picture. That's a type of nightwear or lingerie. I thought it might be medical stuff – CALCIUM and WEIGHT and so forth, but that still didn't fit. Finally, I realized that JUICE, PULL, SWAY and WEIGHT all could mean types of influence you hold or carry. I have juice with the dock workers, and pull with the wise guys down at the bar and hold sway over the shop owners, and my word carries weight with the politicians. That sort of thing. That only left purple.
These were, as always, the trickiest of the bunch because they literally have nothing to do with one another. A BIOPIC is a movie about someone's life. TRIGLYCERIDEs are a type of fat, or lipid, found in the blood. But each one has the same first few letters as an abbreviated math or science class: BIOlogy, CALCulus, CHEMistry, TRIGonometry. You refer to these classes as bio, calc, chem and trig for short.
All told, a reasonably challenging puzzle! How did you do?
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