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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, August 9 (game #1155).
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.
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NYT Connections today (game #1156) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- BILLY GOAT
- BALANCE DUE
- WILLY-NILLY
- MAIL DELIVERY
- BILL TO
- HELTER-SKELTER
- WILL CALL
- THE DEVIL
- DOCTOR
- STRANGE
- ORDER NUMBER
- ANY OLD HOW
- MOBILE TICKET
- UNIT PRICE
- COLONEL SANDERS
- PRINT-AT-HOME
- AT RANDOM
NYT Connections today (game #1156) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: All over the place
- GREEN: Methods of concert entry
- BLUE: Parts of a request for payment sheet
- PURPLE: Notable small beard owners
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 #1156) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: HAPHAZARDLY
- GREEN: WAYS TO RECEIVE EVENT TICKETS
- BLUE: SECTIONS ON AN INVOICE
- PURPLE: FAMOUS GOATEES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #1156) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1156, are…
- YELLOW: HAPHAZARDLY: ANY OLD HOW, AT RANDOM, HELTER-SKELTER, WILLY-NILLY
- GREEN: WAYS TO RECEIVE EVENT TICKETS: MAIL DELIVERY, MOBILE TICKET, PRINT-AT-HOME, WILL CALL
- BLUE: SECTIONS ON AN INVOICE: BALANCE DUE, BILL TO, ORDER NUMBER, UNIT PRICE
- PURPLE: FAMOUS GOATEES: BILLY GOAT, COLONEL SANDERS, DOCTOR STRANGE, THE DEVIL
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
The key to my “purple first” success today was saying aloud to myself “not by the hair on my chinny chin-chin”. This in turn made me think of Colonel Saunders and his resplendent white goatee and although I have never seen Doctor Strange I was pretty sure I’d seen a poster of Benedict Cumberbatch sporting some hair on his chinny chin chin.
The other groups I found much harder and I made a mistake assembling the green group.
I knew that the thread was something to do with buying tickets, but didn’t understand WILL CALL, so selected ORDER NUMBER.
In the process, I remembered a recent concert I went to where the only entry was via MOBILE TICKET, but my phone battery was at 1%; I made it in just as the screen died.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, August 9, 2026, game #1155)
- YELLOW: TAKE A DIFFERENT APPROACH: CHANGE TACK, COURSE-CORRECT, RECALIBRATE, SHIFT GEARS
- GREEN: CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS: CAPS FOR SALE, CORDUROY, GOODNIGHT MOON, MADELINE
- BLUE: MOVIE SUBGENRES: BUDDY COP, NEO-NOIR, SPACE OPERA, SPAGHETTI WESTERN
- PURPLE: THINGS PEOPLE TRY TO GET OUT OF: BAD DREAM, ESCAPE ROOM, JURY DUTY, LABYRINTH
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.
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