Looking for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on August 17 for puzzle #433 takes a huge tumble in difficulty compared to yesterday's answers, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.8 out of 5.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers. And if the hints aren't enough, you'll find all 4 answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words. Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #432 in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #433. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Spoken communication
- 🟩 Green: Canoodle
- 🟦 Blue: Frist aid kit items
- 🟪 Purple: House styles
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Here's a larger hint: Give your partner a canoodle while discussing housing architecture and where you'll put your first aid kit.
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #433?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Spoken communication: Dialect, language, speech, tongue
- 🟩 Canoodle: French, kiss, make out, neck
- 🟦 First aid kit items: Bandage, dressing, scissors, tape
- 🟪 House styles: Cottage, craftsman, prairie, ranch
Perhaps because I have a date night with my partner tonight, the green category leapt out first. It was a quick snag to get french, kiss, make out, and neck.
The yellow category stood out next where I got dialect, language, speech and tongue.
It was a bit of a coin flip but I went with what appearred to be housing styles with cottage, craftsman, prairie and ranch.
Blue category was a simple fill from there with first aid kit items; bandage, dressing, scissors and tape.
It's a quick one today, enjoy and have a good weekend.
Yesterday's Connections answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #432, which had a difficulty rating of 3.4 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
The last couple of days have had difficulties in the 3s, and for the most part they haven't felt any harder than previous days' 2s. That said, today's puzzle might make you pause as you work your way through its connections.
I clocked the yellow category early but skipped it to pursue the other ones. So, my first get was State abbreviations. HI (Hawaii), MA (Massachusetts), OR (Oregon) and PA (Pennsylvania). OK might make you think of Oklahoma but don't fall for that little trap.
Forgoing yellow again, I saw ankle and thigh-high and assumed it was another sock connections which we did last week. Fortunately, cowboy and go-go were easy spots.
Knowing the yellow category made getting purple easy as I popped elevator, sun, tide and yo-yo for things that go up and down. It works, I guess but I was left with a feeling of, so?
Then we wrapped it up with Meh, snagging average, fair, ok and so-so.
Again, this one didn't feel too hard or much harder than any other puzzle this week. If anything it Meh.
