NYT Connections Today — Clues and Answers for Saturday, August 24 (Game #440)

Hello! Let’s play Connections, the clever word game from the NYT that challenges you to group answers into different categories. This can be tricky, so keep reading if you need hints.

What to do once you’re done? Of course, play other word games. I also have Wordle daily cheats and answers, Strands cheats and answers, and Quordle cheats and answers articles if you need help with those too.

SPOILER ALERT: Below is information about NYT Connections today, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

NYT Connections Today (Game #440) – Words of the Day

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Today’s NYT Connections words are…

• NATIONAL
• TALK
• SLIDE
• LATIN
• JARGON
• FLY
• BUDGET
• On tiptoe
• WHISPERS
• APPROXIMATELY
• PLEAD
• BUSINESS
• CRAWL
• SPECULATION
• ECONOMICAL
• ROUNDING

NYT Connections Today (Game #440) – Clue #1 – Group Clues

What are the clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: We could have said that
• Green: Walk like a mouse
• Blue: Rented wheels
• Purple: Cheating is another

Need more clues?

We’re now firmly in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know what the four thematic answers are to today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections Today (Game #440) – Clue #2 – Group Answers

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: HEARSAY
• GREEN: MOVE STEALTHLY
• BLUE: CAR RENTAL COMPANIES
• PURPLE: ENDED BY CHEMICAL ELEMENTS

Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL DOWN IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections Today (Game #440) – Answers

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The answers to today’s Connections game, #440, are…

• YELLOW: VISUAL INTERFACE DISPLAY, MONITOR, SCREEN, TERMINAL
• GREEN: BURLESQUE TO CARRY BOA, CORSET, FAN, GLOVES
• BLUE: SHADES OF BEIGE MUSHROOM, CREAM, WARP, BROWN
• PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF LANGUAGE BASK, CHECK, FINISH, TIE

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• My rating: Moderate
• My rating: 1 error

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I am determined to get back into shape after three failures in a week, so I took special care of today’s match. And that was good, because it is another potentially difficult match.

I was at a disadvantage to some players early on, as the blue group, CAR RENTAL COMPANIES, contains companies that, to my knowledge, do not operate outside of the US, meaning those of us not from the US may well have had difficulty with this. I could have guessed this anyway, if one of them was another global company, but as it was, I left this group until last and solved the problem by default.

I was able to do it in large part because I solved the hardest purple group early on, which I was very pleased about; it was a clever connection that involved the end of the word being a chemical element—say, LEAD in PLEAD or TIN in LATIN—but I was on the lookout for this kind of sneaky NYT trick, and I spotted it right away. Phew!

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Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Friday, August 23, game #439)

• YELLOW: VISUAL INTERFACE DISPLAY, MONITOR, SCREEN, TERMINAL
• GREEN: BURLESQUE TO CARRY BOA, CORSET, FAN, GLOVES
• BLUE: SHADES OF BEIGE MUSHROOM, CREAM, WARP, BROWN
• PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF LANGUAGE BASK, CHECK, FINISH, TIE

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What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of the many increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a bit harder, blue is often quite hard, and purple is usually very hard.

The good thing is that you don’t need to solve the last problem, because you can answer it by process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you some wiggle room.

It’s a bit more complex than Wordle, though, and the game can trick you a lot. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that might obscure the answers.

It is playable for free via the NYT Games website on computer or mobile.