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BecomingConnectionsroyalty will be quite difficult and may take a lot of practice over time. However, with practice and learning the ins and outs, you’re able to slowly become better and better until you are the best. Until then, we have some tips and tricks to help you learn and get some wins under your belt.
If you want a different challenge, check out theNYTMini Crosswordpuzzlewhich is abite-sized piece of a traditional puzzle.Doing thecrosswordevery day in any newspaper is quite fun, and sitting around as a family trying to figure it out together is a nostalgic feeling. To bring that back, try this small piece to be able to finish it without spending massive amounts of time on it every day.
5 Letter Words Wordle Hasn’t Used Yet (Updated Daily)
Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over 1,700 words remaining as possible solutions.
Today’s Connections Category Hints
AUGUST 12 #427
There are a lot of unknowns in every singleConnectionspuzzle, but the categories are the biggest mystery and the one players will have to have some understanding of to solve the puzzle.
If you still need some hints about what the categories might be, we have all of them listed out for you by color:
MERCURY
TIN
Put some GOLD in that crown to make it more sparkly when you earn it, but probably avoid these other metals. LEAD certainly does not make a good crown, and MERCURY and TIN will not help either.
Theymight all be metal, but that does not make them equally good for making sparkly headwear. Save the GOLD for your crowns, use the rest for other purposes. MERCURY would not be in a solid state anyway.
QUEEN
TWIN
Unfortunately, it was not a category about royal or noble terms, but rather one about themore mundane world of mattress sizes. The price of them increases exponentially with the size, as well as the frame and bedding to go with it.
It is certainly a little less fun to think about, but I suppose real queens and kings have to sleep on real mattresses as well. They, however, likely do not have to worry about the price and the amount of space it takes up in their room.
12 Letter Boxed Strategies To Win Quickly
The Letter Boxed game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to connect letters to form words while using various strategies to win quickly.
JOHN
THRONE
This category is a bit more “vulgar” than the usualConnectionscategories, but it is not as bad as it could be. Luckily these are all fairly innocuous words, and while a THRONE could have been included with the fun royal terms instead, it ended up being for amuch less fun and less restful category than the others. HEAD is also a bit unusual, and at least in American dialects very rarely ever used in this context, so it was a little confusing to figure out the last word.
BUTTER
BUTTERFLY
It’s very interesting to me that BUTTER, BUTTERFLY, and BUTCHER are so close together in terms of spelling and are also different kinds of knives. The base words come from very different roots as well, so it isquite curious how knives ended up with these names.
BOWIE is a bit different and did not have a similar spelling, but by this time you are mainly just selecting the last four words left anyway. Hopefully if not, the similar spelling and them all starting with a B might lead you to guess these ones anyway.
Other Games Like Connections
Before any of us spend too long contemplating knives, you may start trying out one of these other puzzles in the boxes listed below:
Is It Free To Play?
Wordle(NYT)
Solve a random five-letter word by using color clues.EveryWordleanswercan be found in our daily updated list.
Yes
Crosswordle
Find the two words that intersect each other like a crossword puzzle.
The Password Game
Create a password in this ever-changing, not-so-simple game. You can find somehelpful tips in ourPassword Gameguide.
