Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For August 11, 2024 (Puzzle #426)

If you want to be a legend in Connections, you need to get in as much practice as you can. While watching all of the champions earn their medals, it is easy to forget how much work and practice they had to put in to become the best. If you also want to become the best, getting a little coaching along the way will only help you improve over time as you start to recognize patterns and understand how to win.

If you want to try a different type of puzzler, you should try out the NYT’s Spelling Bee puzzle. It’s a cute, aesthetic way to test your spelling knowledge, and you will have fun doing so. It’s hard to get a perfect score, but you can get as big of a score as you want to, as the game continues until you cannot think of any more words or the day has passed. And the honeycombs are the color of the gold medals, so that is a big plus.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

AUGUST 11 #426

If you want some extra hints to try to solve the puzzle on your own, you can view the tips down below:

• One category is about a type of transportation
• One category is about winners
• One category is about prepositions
• One category is about an odd way to spell certain things

If you still need a helping hand, we have all the category names for you down below:

Today’s Connections Answers

AUGUST 11 #426

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

Having spent a lot of time on a SHIP, it is possible that I simply had the upper hand on this one. It would be hard not to since my grandpa was in the Navy and I would be ashamed if I didn’t know a lot about large sea CRAFT.

Luckily, I remembered enough to BARGE past this one and move on to the next category with just enough ego to be dangerous. While not every VESSEL is the most fun place to be, it is magical to watch a sunset on the sea.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

If you have not heard of the gymnastic GOAT, you have probably avoided all forms of social media since 2016. Either way, this category is really just all ways to describe Simone Biles,.and probably a purposeful move on the part of the editor knowing when the Olympics were wrapping up.

There are certainly many other new CHAMPs and LEGENDs being made these past two weeks, and with luck the trend will continue as we head into the winter games with the next set of summer games to follow in LA.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one is more about prepositions and is a little different from the other two categories. ON, ABOUT, TOWARD, and CONCERNING are all great ways to transition and make your next point. This can make it easier to solve this one, leaving a fairly confusing assortment of words left. Regarding that, you will have to check out the next box to find out why they were what they were.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one was odd as I was selecting the last words left and wondering what was going on. HARE is a certain kind of rabbit, MUSSEL is a sea creature, NAVAL goes more with the ship category above, and I is an odd word to include with anything here.

However, it turned out they were different spellings of body parts the whole time. I, and as a free tip for you, should probably start reading some of the words aloud to make these kinds of Connections easier, but that does look a bit odd out in public.

Other Games Like Connections

Once you have wrapped up this puzzle, there is still time for others as you begin to watch the Closing Ceremonies. Worldle would be very appropriate and possibly easier with lots of country names on display.