NYT Connections Game: Hints and Answers for August 30

Instead of squandering countless hours on unproductive social media apps, a much more rewarding way to spend your time is by engaging with the NYT Connections game. While Twitter still serves as an essential tool for staying updated on the news, especially for work-related purposes, it’s beneficial to limit your time on social media apps, regardless of how connected you feel to them, whether it's Instagram or Twitter. Reducing your reliance on these platforms can positively impact your mental well-being.

The NYT Connections game offers an intellectually stimulating alternative that not only provides entertainment but also productively engages your mind. Solving puzzles and challenging yourself with different games can foster a sense of achievement and satisfaction that mindless scrolling through social media cannot offer.

How to Play NYT Connections?

Connections presents you with a grid of 16 words. Your goal is to organize these words into four groups by identifying the links between them. The groups can be based on themes such as horror movie franchises, types of verbs, rappers, or players.

Each puzzle has only one correct solution, so you need to be cautious with words that could fit into multiple categories. You can shuffle the words to help you spot connections more easily.

The groups are color-coded: yellow is typically the easiest to identify, blue and green are of medium difficulty, and purple is usually the hardest, often involving wordplay.

To play, select four words you believe belong together and press Submit. If your guess is incorrect, you lose a life. If you're close, you might see a hint indicating you’re one word away from the correct group, but you’ll need to figure out the correct swap. Four mistakes end the game. Let’s avoid that with some hints, and if you’re stuck, here are the answers for today’s Connections puzzle.

What are today’s Connections hints?

The group categories and the clues for today's Connections groups are shown below, without disclosing which words go with which immediately.

Today's 16 words are:

• GOLD
• CUBE
• MACHINE
• STORM
• GARDENS
• LIGHTHOUSE
• DIAMOND
• GLITTER
• GOLD
• SEQUIN
• PYRAMID
• FENCE
• ROW
• BOX
• DIVE
• TEMPLE

Hints for today’s groups:

Yellow group: a bright one

Green group: Things to compete about

Blue group: places to visit

Purple group: words related 

What are today’s Connections Groups?

Today’s groups are:

• Yellow group: sparkling things
• Green group: participate in the summer Olympic event
• Blue group: wonders of the world
• Purple group: ICE___

What are today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Stop here if you're not ready to see today's Connections answers.

Today’s Connections answers are:

SPARKLING THINGS – Diamond, Glitter, Gold, Sequin

PARTICIPATE IN SUMMER OLYMPIC EVENTS – Box, Dive, Fence, Row

WONDERS OF THE WORLD – Gardens, Lighthouse, Pyramid, Temple

ICE___: cream, cube, machine, storm

The NYT Connections puzzle for August 30 was quite challenging for me, especially with its mix of general knowledge and sports-related questions. I only managed to figure out the yellow group, but the rest was a bit of a struggle.

That’s all for today’s Connections clues and answers. Check the hints and solutions for the next game if you need them.

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