NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Wednesday, August 13: Today's Clues And Answers
It's Wednesday, and you know what that means: it's time for another round of Connections!
I'm trying to live with more intentional positivity. That means minimizing distractions that don't bring me joy or improve my life in any meaningful way, being more mindful about how I spend my time, making a point to celebrate the wins of those around me and having less tolerance for nonsense and negativity.
I've never been particularly great at sticking to a schedule of my own, but all the evidence points toward how integrating a stricter structure into my life will make it more likely that I have more time to spend on the things I want to do, and less on wasteful activities. I'm not sure how successful I will actually be at this, but I'll at least give it a shot (and if anyone has any particularly helpful Notion templates to share, let me know!).
Before we begin, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It's a fun hangout spot, and you're more than welcome to hang out with us.
Discord is also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare (or not-so-rare) occasions that I mess something up. I don't look at the comments or Twitter much. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes.
Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, August 13 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...
The blues were immediately obvious to me. Zero issues there. But then I ran into a red herring by guessing GATE, PASSAGE, BOARD and ENTRANCE as a group. Nothing doing there. I was just too hasty.
After a few moments of thought, I realized ENTRANCE wasn't a reference to a doorway or another way to enter something. Here, it means to delight or enrapture someone. I figured that out after drawing a link between CHARM and THRILL. RIVET rounded out the yellows.
The greens then seemed clear, but of course I had to submit the purples first. FISH and STRUCK helped me figure out the connection there (I've never seen anything Stargate-related and I've been meaning to watch the TV show Starstruck, because creator, co-writer and star Rose Matafeo is terrific). I wrapped things up with the greens.
That's win number 166 on the board for yours truly! Here's my grid for today:
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday's game if you need them.
P.S. I ought to have been keeping better track of every recommendation in this column. I do use Google to double check if I've used offered up something before (a task that's a little more onerous now that things are split between here and my newsletter). Still, I can't believe I haven't recommended this song until now.
'Gaslighter' by The Chicks is one of the catchiest yet most brutal breakup songs I've ever heard. It's fantastic:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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