Today's puzzle reminds me of the old commercial that said, "wanna get away?"
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for August 8 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,155. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,154, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
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.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Shift Gears
- Jury Duty
- Space Opera
- Labyrinth
- Caps for Sale
- Escape Room
- Neo-Noir
- Course-Correct
- Bad Dream
- Buddy Cop
- Corduroy
- Change Tack
- Madeline
- Recalibrate
- Spaghetti Western
- Goodnight Moon
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Try again
- 🟩 Green: Light reading
- 🟦 Blue: Types
- 🟪 Purple: Wanna get away?
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Take a Different Approach
- 🟩 Green: Classic Children's Books
- 🟦 Blue: Movie Subgenres
- 🟪 Purple: Things People Try to Get Out Of
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.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on August 9 for puzzle #1,155 are just a bit easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Take a Different Approach: Change Tack, Course-Correct, Recalibrate, Shift Gears
- 🟩 Classic Children's Books: Caps for Sale, Corduroy, Goodnight Moon, Madeline
- 🟦 Movie Subgenres: Buddy Cop, Neo-Noir, Space Opera, Spaghetti Western
- 🟪 Things People Try to Get Out Of: Bad Dream, Escape Room, Jury Duty, Labyrinth
I figured out today's Connections puzzle out of order, but I ultimately got it done. It took me just a few seconds to pick up on the movie subgenre clue, so I locked that in right away.
I locked in yellow pretty easily right after, as the creators of Connections intended.
From there, I slowed down a bit, as I knew three of the four book titles and ended up guessing Caps for Sale, as I've never heard of it.
Then, it was just a matter of process of elimination to get purple.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Yellow: Quaint expressions of excitement
- 🟩 Green: Convey
- 🟦 Blue: Words abbreviated with letters as homophones
- 🟪 Purple: Safety ____
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,154, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
I almost went down the line today, but it was mostly vibe solving.
Initially, I thought there was a hidden tech set today, so I was trying to figure out what else yahoo went with. Whoopee clued me into the excitement with hurrah and hot dog.
I was thinking of Framework Laptops when I chased frame with couch, express and phrase.
And then I biffed it with safety pin where I settled the purple set with belt, goggles and razor. I was thinking of the gaming company Razer here, though clearly spelled differently.
Which left the abbreviation words of cutie (QT), easy (EZ), effects (FX), and I owe you (IOU).
