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Hey there, Connectors! Let’s make sure we can slide into the weekend with our Connections streaks intact with the help of some hints and the answers if you need 'em.

Folks, I’ve found the guitar I want. I’ve desired a Gibson Les Paul for almost as long as I can remember, but I’ve put that dream to one side for now. Epiphone has released a new signature model for Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale. It has the classic shape of an Explorer, but I haven’t seen one that looks quite like this:

It’s so sparkly!! It looks absolutely rad. I’ve been in touch with a few music stores to try to get my hands on one, but they’ve been out of stock. Drat.

Soon, though. Soon. I’ll have one. I’ll probably never be nearly as cool as Lzzy Hale, but I must have this.

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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, August 28 are coming right up. Let’s get rolling!

Connections is a free New York Times daily word game that you can play on the NYT ’s website or Games app. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive, which includes every previous game.

Connections presents you with a grid of 16 words (sometimes phrases, symbols or numbers). The aim is to arrange them into four groups of four. You don’t know how they hit together or what the category for each group is: that’s what you have to figure out.

There’s only one correct solution and there are often red herrings. You can guess incorrectly three times. A fourth wrong guess, and it’s game over.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to deduce, followed by blue, green and purple. Often, the yellow and green groups have synonyms, the blues have cultural references and the purples have some kind of wordplay involved. But this is not a hard and fast rule. Be ready for curveballs – part of the fun of Connections is in how the NYT shakes things up to keep you on your toes.

As with Wordle and similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends using an emoji-based grid. The game tracks your progress too.

Many players take pride in having long win streaks or getting a reverse rainbow – correctly guessing the purple, blue, green and yellow groups in that order with no mistakes. That adds an extra little challenge.

Today’s NYT Connections Word List

After today’s Connections word list, I’ll give you a hint for each category. After that, I’ll reveal one word that goes into each group. Then I’ll reveal the categories, followed by the full answers.

  • MORNING
  • SWEET DREAMS
  • TOP SPOT
  • ERA
  • POPS
  • NOON
  • HOUR
  • BRO
  • NIGHT
  • MOM
  • MAXXING
  • LINE
  • SIS
  • REST EASY
  • CODED
  • SLEEP TIGHT

Today’s NYT Connections Hints

The hints for today’s Connections categories are:

  • 🟨 Yellow group — wish someone a pleasant slumber
  • 🟩 Green group — go both ways
  • 🟦 Blue group — no cap, these are cringe even if you're out there mogging with drip
  • 🟪 Purple group — right up there

One Answer For Each NYT Connections Group

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Let’s take a look at one answer for each group.

  • 🟨 Yellow group — REST EASY
  • 🟩 Green group — MOM
  • 🟦 Blue group — ERA
  • 🟪 Purple group — MORNING

Today’s NYT Connections Categories

Today’s Connections groups are...

  • 🟨 Yellow group — bedtime parting words
  • 🟩 Green group — palindromes
  • 🟦 Blue group — modern add-ons/combining forms
  • 🟪 Purple group — top of the ____

Today’s NYT Connections Answer

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your last chance to look away.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

  • 🟨 Yellow group — bedtime parting words (NIGHT, REST EASY, SLEEP TIGHT, SWEET DREAMS)
  • 🟩 Green group — palindromes (MOM, NOON, SIS, TOP SPOT)
  • 🟦 Blue group — modern add-ons/combining forms (BRO, CODED, ERA, MAXXING)
  • 🟪 Purple group — top of the ____ (HOUR, LINE, MORNING, POPS)

Much as I loathe the term, MAXXING made the blues blindingly obvious to me, so I took care of those first. The yellows were up next. I didn’t have an issue with those.

I wasn’t sure where to go next, so I brute forced my way to the final two groups through process of elimination. I got down to being one away from the purples, and I was able to figure it out at that point. I should have deduced the greens, but TOP SPOT threw me off!

How did you get on this time? Here's my grid:

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Want to know more about how everything fits together? Let’s explore today’s game in more depth in my NYT Connections Answers Explained column. You can check that out by visiting my author page .

That wraps things up for my current run of Connections hints and answers. I’ll be back here with you for more fun and games on Monday. In the meantime, you can read my weekend editions of this column and more of my writing at my newsletter, Pastimes .

P.S. I totally forgot that I should have used this as yesterday’s recommendation after the Pokémon red herring! I haven’t watched the anime since I was a kid or played many of the games in the series, but I do love Midwest emo. Tune in With Chewie covered a bunch of Pokémon music in the style of that genre, and I really enjoyed listening to these chill, atmospheric versions of the songs.

Best of all, the project is called Poké Emo. Perfect name:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!

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