The month is just beginning and you can focus on getting as many wins as possible in this first week. If you are still a little slow from the weekend, we can help you with the Connections response for today, August 5th.
If you’ve never played it, Connections challenges you to sort a group of 16 words into four groups where all the words are well… connected. This connection could come from the fact that they share a similar meaning, are part of a place name, objects found in a kitchen, or anything else really!
Although it may seem easy, the connection groups each have a different level of difficulty – yellow being the easiest and purple being the most difficult. For this reason, practice Today’s Login Response This can be quite complicated. You may get one group right away, but another may be a mystery to you. Luckily, we are here to help!
Originally developed at the New York Times’ annual game jam, Connections was released in beta in June 2023. It has since become one of the most popular games featured by the NYTimes, second only to Worlde. Although some connections have been made to the BBC’s Only Connect program…
Hint for today’s Connections answer
Instead of jumping straight to the answer, let’s start with some clues for today’s Connections riddle:
- YELLOW – Your main objective in a zombie apocalypse.
- Green – Messages on cards you send to people.
- Blue – Different ways of saying you understand something.
- Purple – Words that go well with eye.
- Make Do belongs to the Yellow group, Congratulations to Green and See to Blue.
Remember: yellow is the easiest group to find, followed by green and blue, with purple being the hardest set of words to connect.
Login Words for August 5th
Here are the words included in today’s Connections puzzle – see if the clues above help you make a connection before visiting today’s answer:
| Birthday | Candy | Get it | THANKS |
| Contact | Witness | Hack it | See |
| Shadow | To be content | Healed | To understand |
| Manage | To understand | Get by | Congratulations |
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Connections response for August 5th
Without further ado, here is Connections’ response for today:
- Survive – Get by, hack, manage, manage.
- Types of greeting cards – Birthday, Congratulations, Get Well Soon, Thank you.
- Are we clear? – Capisce, Understand, See, Obtain.
- Words after “eye” – Candy, Contact, Shadow, Witness.
Two phrases particularly stood out to me when I read the ones in today’s puzzle. Thank You and Congratulations. Based on these, I started looking for other words that could work as a group around the idea of messages you could send to someone. I finally came up with Birthday and Get Well Soon, although the theme of the group was quite different from what I had originally imagined. Well, a win is a win. The second group I found was the Blue group because of Get It and See. I tend to use these phrases a lot, mainly because I’m never sure if people understand me. It took me a few tries to group the remaining words together, but nothing I couldn’t pull off.
What to play after Connections?
The obvious answer to this question is Wordle, but if you’ve already solved that problem today, the New York Times has other games to offer. As for word-based games, the NYTimes offers Mini Crossword, Spelling Bee, Letter Boxed, and Strands, which is still in beta. If you feel like taking a break from words, you can also try Tiles — a pattern-matching game — or Sudoku.
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Outside of the NYTimes, there is Semantle, where you have to find the secret word by guessing its meaning. Spelling doesn’t matter in Semantle, instead you have to pay attention to the numerical value of your guesses to plot your way to the answer. However, if you prefer to stick to the Connections format, it’s worth checking out Puzzgrid. There are hundreds of Connections-style puzzles there, but the twist is that you only have three minutes to solve them.
(You can also just watch Only Connect on BBC iPlayer…)
If you’re in the mood to read, we explained why the NYTimes’ crossword puzzle is a reliable joy and interviewed Jonathan Knight, head of games for the NYTimes.
Good luck solving today’s connections!
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