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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, August 27 are coming right up. Let’s get rolling!

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Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase

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.

  • PIKACHU
  • SPUNK
  • NEMO
  • DOVE
  • MISTY
  • SLATE
  • LIGHTNING
  • ASH
  • PEWTER
  • BROCK
  • EMOTIONAL
  • LIVE WIRE
  • OVERCOME
  • ELECTRIC EEL
  • WRAP
  • CHOKED UP

Today’s NYT Connections Hints

The hints for today’s Connections categories are:

  • 🟨 Yellow group — these might spark a bright idea
  • 🟩 Green group — is someone cutting onions around here?
  • 🟦 Blue group — there are 50 variants, according to a particularly saucy novel and film
  • 🟪 Purple group — an extra opening hook can often draw fans of these in

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 — ELECTRIC EEL
  • 🟩 Green group — OVERCOME
  • 🟦 Blue group — PEWTER
  • 🟪 Purple group — BROCK

Today’s NYT Connections Categories

Today’s Connections groups are...

  • 🟨 Yellow group — electric things
  • 🟩 Green group — moved to tears
  • 🟦 Blue group — shades of gray
  • 🟪 Purple group — music genre plus starting letter

Today’s NYT Connections Answer

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Today’s Connections answers are...

  • 🟨 Yellow group — electric things (ELECTRIC EEL, LIGHTNING, LIVE WIRE, PIKACHU)
  • 🟩 Green group — moved to tears (CHOKED UP, EMOTIONAL, MISTY, OVERCOME)
  • 🟦 Blue group — shades of gray (ASH, DOVE, PEWTER, SLATE)
  • 🟪 Purple group — music genre plus starting letter (BROCK, NEMO, SPUNK, WRAP)

Although Pokémon is the biggest entertainment franchise on the planet, I figured that the main characters of the original anime would have to be a red herring. So PIKACHU had to go with the other electric things to get the yellows sorted. (PIKACHU is yellow too!)

After wondering for a moment what BROCK might refer to, my eyes darted over to SPUNK and I figured out the purples.

I then deduced the last two groups at the same time, more or less. It was a toss up as to which would be blue and green, but I went with the shades of gray to get the blues. The greens sealed the deal.

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

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 .

Be sure to check my blog for hints and the answer for tomorrow’s game of Connections if you need them.

P.S. Even though I recommended one of her songs recently, I have to go with another Dolly track today. A true icon:

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

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