NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, August 12 (game #793)

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #793) - today's words

Today's NYT Connections words are…

• BOWLING BALL
• CITY HALL
• SUPERMARKET 
• BOWLING PINS
• GOLF COURSE
• BOWLING ALLEY
• SPONGE
• BOWLING GREEN
• DECADE
• HIGHWAY
• WALL STREET
• FINGERS
• BROOKLYN BRIDGE
• COLANDER
• SWIMMING POOL
• COMMANDMENTS

NYT Connections today (game #793) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: 2x5=
• GREEN: Change a vowel in “lines”
• BLUE: The Big Apple
• PURPLE: Hollow parts

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #793) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: GROUPS OF TEN 
• GREEN: PLACES WITH LANES 
• BLUE: LANDMARKS IN DOWNTOWN NYC 
• PURPLE: THINGS WITH HOLES 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #793) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #793, are…

• YELLOW: GROUPS OF TEN BOWLING PINS, COMMANDMENTS, DECADE, FINGERS
• GREEN: PLACES WITH LANES BOWLING ALLEY, HIGHWAY, SUPERMARKET, SWIMMING POOL
• BLUE: LANDMARKS IN DOWNTOWN NYC BOWLING GREEN, BROOKLYN BRIDGE, CITY HALL, WALL STREET
• PURPLE: THINGS WITH HOLES BOWLING BALL, COLANDER, GOLF COURSE, SPONGE

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• My rating: Hard
• My score: 2 mistakes

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I’ll be honest, I was pretty impressed with myself when I got GROUPS OF TEN and then seconds later crushed when it revealed itself to be the yellow group.

The first of my mistakes came when assembling THINGS WITH HOLES. I saw the link, but put BROOKLYN BRIDGE instead of SPONGE. Which seems ridiculous in hindsight – but I was thinking of cleaning sponges rather than the real thing, plus the Brooklyn Bridge does have a few holes in it.

For LANDMARKS IN DOWNTOWN NYC I fudged a group together incorrectly, thinking we were searching for locations of Bob Dylan album covers.

There are several shot in New York (The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Highway 61 Revisited) but I was way off with BROOKLYN BRIDGE, WALL STREET, HIGHWAY and CITY HALL but it did get me "one away" and help me rethink.

I’d not heard of BOWLING GREEN before (New York’s oldest public park), but it seemed the most logical place name from the options I had left.

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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, August 11, game #792)

• YELLOW: ORDINARY NORMAL, PLAIN, STANDARD, VANILLA
• GREEN: ABANDON DESERT, DUMP, MAROON, STRAND
• BLUE: SPECS ON CONSUMER PACKAGING COUNT, MEASURE, VOLUME, WEIGHT
• PURPLE: DARK ____ AGES, CHOCOLATE, HORSE, MATTER

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What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.