NYT Connections #793 Brings Tricky Twists for August 11 Players
If you’ve been playing the New York Times’ “Connections” lately, you know how sneaky this little daily puzzle can be. Every midnight, it refreshes with 16 new words, daring you to find the four hidden groups they belong to. Sounds simple, right? Well, not quite — because while plenty of words seem like they go together, there’s only one correct way to group them. And today’s puzzle, number 793, was no exception.
For anyone new to it, “Connections” is all about spotting the common thread. You’re given a grid of words, and your goal is to sort them into four categories of four words each. Categories can be anything — flavors, measurements, book titles, or phrases starting with “dark.” You tap four words, hit submit, and if you’re right, they vanish from the board. But if you’re wrong, that’s a mistake — and you only get four mistakes before the game ends.
There’s also a little extra color-coding to help (or mock) you: yellow is the easiest set, then green and blue in the middle, and purple is usually the trickiest, often involving wordplay. You can shuffle the board if your brain’s stuck, and when you finish, you can share your results with friends just like with Wordle.
Now, onto today’s hints. The yellow category was about something ordinary, green had to do with abandoning something, blue was about details found on product packaging, and purple involved the phrase “dark ___.” From there, the careful grouping began.
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For yellow, the “ordinary” set turned out to be NORMAL, PLAIN, STANDARD, VANILLA . These words all have that sense of “nothing fancy” — although some players might have been tempted to put VANILLA in with a dessert theme.
The green “abandon” set was DESERT, DUMP, MAROON, STRAND . All of these can mean to leave something or someone behind — whether on purpose or by unfortunate circumstance.
The blue “specs on consumer packaging” group came together as COUNT, MEASURE, VOLUME, WEIGHT — exactly the kind of details you might see printed on the side of a box or bag.
Finally, the purple “dark ___” set was AGES, CHOCOLATE, HORSE, MATTER . Each can be paired with the word “dark” to make a common phrase: dark ages, dark chocolate, dark horse, dark matter.
Some players were thrown off by early guesses — for example, thinking CHOCOLATE belonged with VANILLA and PLAIN — but that’s the charm of Connections: it’s built to mislead you just enough to keep you thinking. And if you didn’t solve it today, no worries. There’ll be another puzzle tomorrow, just waiting to test your pattern-finding skills.
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