NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Friday, August 15: 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. The weekend is right around the corner. But first, let's make sure we keep those Connections streaks going, shall we?
It's been a bit of a crummy week as I haven't been sleeping much because of a rotten cough that's kept me awake much more than I'd like. But hey, I don't really have any plans this weekend. I'm gonna try to rest up as much as I can. In large part because you all deserve much more enjoyable/interesting intros and this is about all I can manage right now. Sorry 🥲
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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, August 15 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.
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Today's Connections answers are...
Lots of money-related words on the grid this time. Hmm. TENDER was one of those, but it very clearly went with the rest of the yellows.
I then clocked the greens after the grid pushed TAKE CARE OF and PAY next to each other, with SETTLE close by. FOOT made sense with those.
BRILLIANT was then my entry point into the blues. GRAND was an easy inclusion there. I don't love that FINE can mean either "okay" or "excellent." It took me a minute to realize that CAPITAL was the fourth word. I've heard that used in this context before e.g. "that's a CAPITAL idea!"
And thus we had the purples remaining. I figured from the jump that there was some kind of wordplay going on with MAC and PEC, but never quite figured it out. Seeing those on a line with CASH though made it clear. These refer to CASHew, HAZElnut, MACadamia and PECan.
I achieved a regular rainbow with a perfect game this time, marking my 168th win in a row. Here's my grid for today:
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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.
P.S. I have entirely too many rabbit holes to explore on the internet, and I recently discovered another one in the form of Wargirl. From Long Beach, California, this self-described "world music/garage disco/rock" band have a new album called Good Things coming out next week.
The only song I've heard from them so far is "Lost Inside My Brain," and I'm now eager to explore more from them. This song is very relatable! Yes, words and thoughts keep getting lost inside my brain! It's a bop too:
Actually, after re-listening to that, I wound up on the band's YouTube channel and heard this track too, so I'm doubling up on the recommendation today. Yep, I need to hear more from this group:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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