NYT Connections hints today for #784: Clues and answers for Sunday, Aug. 3

Can’t seem to figure out today’s New York Times Connections puzzle? You’re not alone. But no worries, you’re in good hands because we’ve got hints (and spoilers if you want them) to Sunday’s puzzle: #784. Don’t feel bad for taking a peek at the answers — sometimes they can be tricky.

Don’t worry, we’re in this together so I’ll share how I did each day. I didn’t find this puzzle to be super hard, though I don’t think I could’ve guessed purple without solving the other groups first.

If you’re new to NYT Connections, we’ve got some tips to help you along the way. Also, check out today’s Wordle hints and answer.

How to play NYT Connections

NYT Connections is a surprisingly difficult word game and if you play, you’re now considered a “connector.” There are 16 words presented in a four-by-four grid and your goal is to match four words into their respective color-coded groups (yellow, green, blue, purple). Yellow is the easiest to guess while purple is the hardest.

Your job is to find out how the four words are connected to a specific group. For instance, in one recent puzzle, the blue group hint was “related to buying a home” and the words were appraisal, escrow, insurance and mortgage.

If you make a mistake when you submit, that’s okay. You get four guesses before the game is over and the answers are revealed. You can also click on the lightbulb icon in the game to get some hints, but we’ll also provide those here.

If you find yourself obsessed with this game after completing just one puzzle, I’ve got bad news for you. You can only play once a day. The timer resets each night at midnight.

Tips for playing NYT Connections

I only recently started playing Connections, but here are some tips I’ve found useful along the way.

1. When you get an answer wrong, pay attention to the text that appears at the top of the puzzle. “One away” means you only got one word wrong. Analyze each word to find one that might fit better in another group and try a new word.

2. If you’re stuck, shuffle the board. You can shuffle as many times as you’d like to help you see some different word combinations.

3. Try to find the easy yellow group words first. Those words usually stick out because they have so much in common — they’re often synonyms of one another. But be wary of the trick words that could fit into multiple categories.

4. Stumped? Come back to the puzzle later with a fresher mind. Trying to solve a difficult puzzle without “sleeping” on it might result in too many mistakes.

Today’s NYT Connections hints

If you can figure out yellow and green, blue should be a breeze. Purple was pretty creative today, as usual. I was able to guess them all without any dings this time. Check out these hints if you’re having a hard time grouping them.

I’ll give you my own hints:

Yellow group: To do the same as others

Green group: Physical games

Blue group: Trends

Purple group: Bands named after animals but with different spellings

Here’s one word from each group:

Yellow group hint word: Parrot

Green group hint word: Golf

Blue group hint word: Craze

Purple group hint word: Monkey

Okay, on to the official group names for a bigger hint. If you don’t want to know what those are, then stop scrolling.

NYT Connections group names

Here are the group names for today’s puzzle.

Yellow group: Emulate

Green group: Sports

Blue group: Mania

Purple group: Single animal in a creatively spelled band name

Warning, spoilers ahead! If you scroll past this, the answers are right below.

Final warning! Last chance to go back and finish the game.

Today’s NYT Connections answers (spoilers)

Here are the Connections groups and the words that go with them.

Yellow group: Emulate (copy, echo, mirror, parrot)

Green group: Sports (golf, cricket, polo, squash)

Blue group: Mania (bug, craze, fad, fever)

Purple group: Single animal in a creatively spelled band name (beetle, bird, gorilla, monkey)

My results today

I actually guessed these in order today. I will say it took a lot of word elimination to figure out that squash is a sport (sorry, I’ve never heard of it until today).

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Thanks for reading! Share how you did today in the comments.

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