Looking for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on August 4 for puzzle #420 are a bit easier than yesterday's answers, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.6 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, #419, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #420. 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: Kiddo
- 🟩 Green: Up for it
- 🟦 Blue: Beginning with double letters
- 🟪 Purple: Nicknames for the sea, with "the"
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: Today's puzzle will leave you seeing double — double, letters, double meaning, you name it.
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #420?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Kiddo: Buddy, champ, sport, tiger
- 🟩 Up for it: Amenable, down, game, willing
- 🟦Beginning with double letters: Aardvark, eerie, llama, ooze
- 🟪Nicknames for the sea, with "the": Blue, briny, deep, drink
I spotted the blue category first, having recognized the pattern of double letters in each of the clues.
After that was the purple category, which came easy since I grew up in a coastal area. I've heard every nickname you can think of for the ocean over the years.
Yellow came next, and it was a quick fill once I started looking for what other words could go with Buddy.
Green became a rote fill after that.
Yesterday's Connections answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #419, which had a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
As outgoing President Biden would say, malarkey on was on the mind. I spotted the blue category and its nonsense first as three of the four answers were on the corners. I debated tripe as it would next to stomach and tongue for a potential edible organ's category but glad I did it.
Yellow was a quick fill from there with high, kick, rush and thrill.
I supposed I could have snagged either green or purple here but I saw bear and stomach while snagging the other two. Thus, I just needed stand and take to for tolerance.
The purple category was cute with heels, mouse, remote and tongue as things to click. It put me in a Wizard of Oz mindset, though that might be related to the terrible Wicked trailer that dropped recently.
