Today’s Connections
Credit: NYT / Erik Kain
Looking for a little help with your Sunday Connections puzzle? If you’re looking for extra clues – or the answers – you’ve come to the right place. Below you’ll find an extra set of hints, the categories for each group and, finally, the solution to today’s puzzle.
We’ve come to the last full day of summer. The autumnal equinox slices Monday in half, meaning you’ll begin the day in summer and end in fall. Get those sweaters handy. Grab a pumpkin latte and get ready for Halloween.
My weekend streaming guide is live just in case you’re in the mood for something new to watch. Superman is finally streaming and we have some promising new shows on Netflix, Prime Video and more.
Alrighty then, it’s time to group some words!
If you’re looking for Saturday’s Connections guide, it’s right here.
How To Play Connections
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints For Sunday, August 10th?
These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers. First, here are today’s Connections words:
- TAP
- LOUNGE
- ALE
- SCROLL
- TABLE
- QUASH
- HIVE
- VEG
- LOAF
- EEK
- PINCH
- SWIPE
- CHILL
- BOOTH
- COUNTER
- BAR
Hints for the Connections groups today are:
- 🟡Yellow group – We do these things with our phone.
- 🔵Blue group – When you go out to eat.
- 🟢Green group – Take a load off.
- 🟣Purple group – Eat these every day for part of a balanced diet, just add a letter first.
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- 🟡Yellow group – Touchscreen Gestures
- 🔵Blue group – Restaurant Seating Options
- 🟢Green group – Relax
- 🟣Purple group – Vegetables With First Letter Removed
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:
- 🟡Yellow group – Pinch, Scroll, Swipe, Tap
- 🔵Blue group – Bar, Booth, Counter, Table
- 🟢Green group – Chill, Loaf, Lounge, Veg
- 🟣Purple group – Ale, Eek, Hive, Quash
Today’s Connections
Screenshot: Erik Kain
This was pretty easy, no two ways about it. I spotted all the seating words first. Bar, Booth, Counter and Table are all pretty obviously places you sit when you go to a restaurant or bar.
I suppose the yellow group’s Tap was a bit of a red herring since there’s a Tap at a Bar also, but it was still different enough to obviously belong with the yellow group’s Pinch, Scroll and Swipe. We use our phones pretty much non-stop so these are familiar gestures.
Lounge was another red herring of sorts, fitting nicely with Tap and Bar but still different enough to not quite belong. Instead, it goes with the other relaxation words in the green group: Loaf, Chill and Veg. That last one is a clue for the purple group:
(K)ale, (L)eek, (C)hive and (S)quash. I didn’t have any missed guesses this time around. I still think this game needs a poison word to keep things interesting. It’s much less challenging than a good Pips puzzle, that’s for sure!
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