NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Friday, August 1: Today's Clues And Answers

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Each day's game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today's Connections hints and answers, here are Thursday's:
Hey there, Connectors! Happy Friday. Let's make sure we keep those streaks of yours rolling along as we head into the weekend.
As a kid, I had heard that saying 'white rabbits' on the first day of the month was supposed to bring you luck. I tried it once. That same month, my grandmother passed away. So, I've never done it since.
I don't really have a broader point to make here. It's just the first of the month and I often think of that story on such occasions. But what I would say is that, while I don't necessarily believe in things like astrology or superstition, I'm all for anything that brings comfort and light into your life, as long as it doesn't negatively impact anyone else.
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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, August 1 are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT's website or Games app.
You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
What Are Today's Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today's Connections groups, I'll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today's 16 words are...
And the hints for today's Connections groups are:
One Word For Each Connections Group
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let's take a look at one word for each group.
Today's Connections word hints are…
What Are Today's Connections Groups?
Today's Connections groups are...
What Are Today's Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today's Connections answers are...
Despite the links between GARLAND and WREATH, and DEAN and FACULTY, taking a guess at a group of four classic movie stars was too tempting to pass up. As it turns out, I got the blues with (James) DEAN, (Clark) GABLE, (Judy) GARLAND and (Shirley) TEMPLE.
The purples were up next. JACKPOT led me into those. Hit the HAY is an expression meaning "go to sleep," hit the ROAD means to start driving and hit the ROOF means to react furiously.
The halved grid made it easy to spot the yellows. That left the greens, for which I did not deduce the connection. I thought they all referred to a logo of some kind. Never mind!
Another perfect game brings me up to 155 wins on the bounce. Here's my grid for this one:
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That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. I'll be back with you all here on Monday. In the meantime, you can check out my weekend editions of this column in my newsletter, Pastimes.
Friday: I absolutely love when the YouTube algorithm sends me a music video that has maybe a few dozen views, then I click on it and enjoy it very much. Such was the case this week with this song by a band I had never heard of.
"Public Circuit is a New York City electronic band," reads the very informative text on the band's YouTube channel. Their latest track, "To The Grave" is '80s as heck and a certifiable bop. Definitely gonna have to check out some more from these guys:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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