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There is nothing quite like the thrill of winning today’sConnectionspuzzle and getting those bragging rights. This is easier when you have a little nudge about what the categories might be. We have all the nudges you might need, having conquered the thrills of this puzzle already. This can save you a bit of time or ensure you at least keep your streak alive even if you can no longer get the perfect score.
While it may be hard to match the rush ofConnections, theNYTLetter Boxedpuzzlecan give it a run for its money in terms of challenge. It isone of the hardest puzzles from this newspaper, and you have to construct words without using letters sitting next to each other on the same side of the box. You, therefore, have to do a lot of skipping around, which can be good or bad depending on how your brain works.
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Today’s Connections Category Hints
AUGUST 3 #418
These categories have some interesting word choices and a fair amount of nuance to distinguish them. This can make it difficult, but luckily for you, we have some hints about the various categories:
RUSH
THRILL
As the yellow category should be, this was the easiest one to figure out in today’s puzzle. None of the other words had anything “exciting” to make me think they belong here. The onlypotential trick lying in wait in this category might be KICK,as it could be seen as a type of show that might be long with HEELS. Luckily, there are not many shoes in today’s puzzle, making it a little easier.
STOMACH
TAKE
When you TOLERATE something, it is often amatter of how much you can TAKE. Boundaries are different for everyone, and everyone can STOMACH slightly more of something than someone else. Inversely, others can BEAR things, and some cannot. This category did not have many tricky words, except perhaps BEAR, which could have been paired with the other animal words to create a different category but did not.
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BUNK
TRIPE
BULL and TRIPE could also end up in the animal category, but in this case, they bothmean something more like “nonsense.“Likewise, BALONEY here is not the food (spelled quite differently and is a big hint as to what the category might be) but a word meaning something similar to BUNK. All of these words typically mean someone is not giving you the truth or is telling quite a story. Luckily, in this case these are all the honest answers for the blue category today.
REMOTE
TONGUE
As Dorothyclicked her HEELSto go home, I realized that the MOUSE was not the animal but the object sitting next to my keyboard right now. REMOTES are never very far away, and I click my TONGUE on my cats to get their attention. This was another one where I felt Ishould have been able to guess the categorybut didn’t until I saw the final answer after I selected the remaining four words. That being said, a win is a win either way, so I’ll take it.
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