Today's Connections Hints & Answers For August 13, 2024 (Puzzle #428) (2024)

Sometimes, the daily Connections' puzzle can be a bit rough on the brain. However, with a few key hints and a little strategy this all can be minimized and you can find yourself enjoying the puzzle more and more each day. We aren't saying we have a Connections problem, but we are saying it's very easy to get addicted to this one. Which, if anything, is something not so bad to get addicted to.

If you find yourself still running on adrenaline if you finish Connections, check out the Letter Boxed puzzle game that is also produced by the NYT. You will find yourself trying to figure out what the signs are and if there are any striking words or not being used right away. If you love figuring out what letter goes in the right places, this is a game for you.

Today's Connections Category Hints

AUGUST 13 #428

If you want some hints about these categories before we tell you what they are, you can look at the bullet points below:

• One category is about ___ the obvious
• One category is about what we call each other
• One category is about a word used in a previous hint
• One category is about things sharing a common word that has nothing to do with the most popular definition of it

If you are still a bit confused like I was, do not worry. My confusion is to your gain, and I have all the category names you could hope for in the table down below:

	STATED
	NICKNAME
	OBVIOUS
	___ HOUSE (THAT AREN'T HOUSES)

Today's Connections Answers

AUGUST 13 #428

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

To have VOICED your concerns usually means that you have SAID, SPOKE, or TOLD someone else who has the power to make a change. It was a little odd for this category to be in the past tense, but it did help differentiate these words from the others.

When you have uncles who constantly make the "past tents" joke, it's not hard to remember some of the meanings behind those jokes. What makes these jokes worse is they are all married with children, making this case of the dad joke even worse than before.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

SOBRIQUET was an interesting choice to throw in with all the others, not because it does not share a definition but more so due to the age of the word. It's possible that my European friends would be a little more familiar with this term on the whole, as I mostly knew this from years of taking other Romance languages. However, DESIGNATION, HANDLE, and MONIKER all seem to go together very well so it is only a matter of narrowing down the fourth word if you do not know what that word means.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category feels fairly straightforward at the outset, but some of those "Nickname" words could be used here as well. This makes it a little more challenging than otherwise due to the potential overlap, and I could see some of the other words from "Stated" and "Obvious" ending up with one or two of these words instead. Luckily, the category name may not fully match the rest of the aesthetic.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one had me stumped for a little while, as I could not figure out where POWER and ROUGH came in. Luckily, after messing around a little bit with categories two and three, I was able to figure out these words and select them without any more issues. However, I could see someone struggling with this one if they thought the category name was something else as I also did.

Other Games Like Connections

If you want to stay indoors on this fine Monday without much to do at work, you should check out one of the free word-based puzzlers listed below, and while still tied to your phone like the little gremlins we all are, see what other adrenaline opportunities wait for you below.

Connections

Released

June 12, 2023

Developer(s)

The New York Times Company

Publisher(s)

The New York Times Company

ESRB

e

Platform(s)

Web Browser , Mobile