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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Aug. 4 #315
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is a bit tricky. Hope you know your car-race details! Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn't show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic's own app. Or you can continue to play it free online. Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta Hints for today's Connections: Sports Edition groups Here are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: H-town. Green group hint: Grab your bat. Blue group hint: Young signal-callers. Purple group hint: Racing supporters. Answers for today's Connections: Sports Edition groups Yellow group: Houston teams. Green group: Hitting statistics. Blue group: NFL rookie QBs. Purple group: NASCAR Cup Series sponsors, over time. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words What are today's Connections: Sports Edition answers? The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Aug. 4, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNET The yellow words in today's Connections The theme is Houston teams. The four answers are Astros, Dash, Dynamo and Texans. The green words in today's Connections The theme is hitting statistics. The four answers are average, home run, RBI and run. The blue words in today's Connections The theme is NFL rookie QBs. The four answers are Dart, Sanders, Shough and Ward. The purple words in today's Connections The theme is NASCAR Cup Series sponsors, over time. The four answers are Monster Energy, Nextel, Sprint and Winston.
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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers for Aug. 4, #785
Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. The blue and purple categories are pretty bizarre, although they're fun once you see the connections. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak. Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time Hints for today's Connections groups Here are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: Certain invertebrates. Green group hint: Forest inhabitants. Blue group hint: Involves a letter of the alphabet. Purple group hint: Words with a similar sound. Answers for today's Connections groups Yellow group: Arthropods. Green group: Trees. Blue group: [Letter] (is) for ____ Purple group: Words that sound like two letters. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words What are today's Connections answers? The completed NYT Connections puzzle for Aug. 4, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNET The yellow words in today's Connections The theme is arthropods. The four answers are aphid, beetle, mite and tick. The green words in today's Connections The theme is trees. The four answers are beech, cedar, pine and yew. The blue words in today's Connections The theme is [letter] (is) for ____. The four answers are apple, cookie, effort and vendetta. The purple words in today's Connections The theme is words that sound like two letters. The four answers are decay, easy, geo and ziti.
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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Aug. 4
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's Mini Crossword was a toughie. I was especially puzzled by 6-Across, which asks, "What puts the "i" in Silicon Valley?" I eventually got it, but it took some thinking. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips. The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times' games collection. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET's NYT puzzle hints page. Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword Let's get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers. The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for Aug. 4, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNET Mini across clues and answers 1A clue: Key above Caps Lock Answer: TAB 4A clue: Biased sports fan Answer: HOMER 6A clue: What puts the "i" in Silicon Valley? Answer: APPLE 7A clue: Triangular road sign Answer: YIELD 8A clue: Items in a music library, for short Answer: CDS Mini down clues and answers 1D clue: Conversation subject Answer: TOPIC 2D clue: Pumped up Answer: AMPED 3D clue: "Silver ___" (Christmas classic) Answer: BELLS 4D clue: Farm fodder Answer: HAY 5D clue: Like pants in the classic Nantucket style Answer: RED
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Today's NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 4 #1507
Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is another tough one, I thought. Even if you guess the right vowel, the consonants aren't very common letters. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you today's Wordle answer, we'll give you some hints. If you don't want a spoiler, look away now. Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats Today's Wordle answer has one repeated letter. Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels Today's Wordle answer has one vowel, but it's the repeated letter, so you'll see it twice. Wordle hint No. 3: Start letter Today's Wordle answer begins with R. Wordle hint No. 4: Placement The repeated vowel in today's Wordle answer shows up in the second and fourth spot in the word. Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning Today's Wordle answer can refer to something that is inflexible and cannot be bent. TODAY'S WORDLE ANSWER Today's Wordle answer is RIGID. Yesterday's Wordle answer Yesterday's Wordle answer, Aug. 3, No. 1506 was LUMPY. Recent Wordle answers July 30, No. 1502: ASSAY July 31, No. 1503: FRILL Aug. 1, No. 1504: BANJO Aug. 2, No. 1505: DAUNT
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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 4 #519
Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. I had to rack my brain to unscramble a few of the answers. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET's NYT puzzle hints page. Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far Hint for today's Strands puzzle Today's Strands theme is: Cutting it close. If that doesn't help you, here's a clue: Snip-snip. Clue words to unlock in-game hints Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle's theme. If you're stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work: RIPE, CARB, RARE, PATE, PEAT, TAPE, HOPS, SHOP, SHOPS, PACE, SLICE, LICE, CARE Answers for today's Strands puzzle These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers: CAPE, COMB, RAZOR, TRIMMER, CLIPPERS, AFTERSHAVE Today's Strands spangram The completed NYT Strands puzzle for Aug. 4, 2025, #519. NYT/Screenshot by CNET Today's Strands spangram is BARBERSHOP. To find it, look for the B that's three letters over and two letters down from the upper left corner, and wind almost straight down.
