NYT ‘Connections’ Hints For Monday, August 4: Today’s Clues And Answers
Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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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 Sunday’s:
Hey there, Connectors! Welcome to the start of a new week! I’m thrilled to be back with you for another Monday-Friday run of this here column.
As you may know by now, I love to kick off the Monday editions of this column with a fun, upbeat song. Because who doesn’t feel at least a bit better after a little Monday boogie?
This is a sort of two-parter that lines up with today’s recommendation at the end of the column, but this song is such an earworm all the same. “Back on 74” by Jungle was one of the biggest viral hits of 2023, and I’m bringing it back for 2025:
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 Monday, August 4 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…
- APHID
- BEETLE
- CEDAR
- DECAY
- EASY
- EFFORT
- GEO
- TICK
- BEECH
- VENDETTA
- APPLE
- PINE
- MITE
- COOKIE
- YEW
- ZITI
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- 🟨 Yellow group — lil’ critters
- 🟩 Green group — family and palm would work here
- 🟦 Blue group — they could help one learn the alphabet, perchance
- 🟪 Purple group — seedy, while and seer would fit in this group
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…
- 🟨 Yellow group — BEETLE
- 🟩 Green group — PINE
- 🟦 Blue group — COOKIE
- 🟪 Purple group — EASY
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Today’s Connections groups are…
- 🟨 Yellow group — arthropods
- 🟩 Green group — trees
- 🟦 Blue group — [letter] (is) for _____
- 🟪 Purple group — words that sound like two letters
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…
- 🟨 Yellow group — arthropods (APHID, BEETLE, MITE, TICK)
- 🟩 Green group — trees (BEECH, CEDAR, PINE, YEW)
- 🟦 Blue group — [letter] (is) for _____ (APPLE, COOKIE, EFFORT, VENDETTA)
- 🟪 Purple group — words that sound like two letters (DECAY, EASY, GEO, ZITI)
Even though we had APPLE in the mix, I took a gamble with the greens and got it right first time. Nice. The bugs were next up after that for the yellows.
I’ll be honest, my first thought when I looked at the grid was that there might be a group of words that sounded like single letters, entirely because of YEW. But after I got the first two groups out of the way and said the remaining words out loud, the purples became obvious. They are DECAY/”DK,” EASY/”EZ,” GEO/”GO,” and ZITI/”ZT.”
I didn’t really get the blue connection, but (V for) VENDETTA should have been a giveaway. Can’t say I’m a fan of that one! It’s so tortured that even the category title looks like an algebra equation.
In any case, that’s a perfect game for me. It extends my overall streak to 157 wins. Here’s my grid for today:
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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 Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I’m so very happy that Ren is back. His latest video is yet another fantastic piece of art. But it doesn’t quite fit the upbeat vibe I usually go for on Mondays, so let’s go with an older one from him (we’ll get to the new one in a day or two). This one is a mashup of “Back on 74” and “Message in a Bottle” by The Police, with an added original rap verse and the help of a bass player and two terrific backing singers. Obviously, it’s fantastic:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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