Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For August 12, 2024 (Puzzle #427)

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Today’s Connections Category Hints

AUGUST 12 #427

There are a lot of unknowns in every single Connections puzzle, but the categories are the biggest mystery and the one players will have to have some understanding of to solve the puzzle.

• One category is not about terms for nobility
• One category is about something found in the earth
• One category is about a group of slang terms for the same thing
• One category is about danger sticks

If you still need some hints about what the categories might be, we have all of them listed out for you by color:

	METAL ELEMENTS
	MATTRESS SIZES
	SLANG FOR TOILET
	KINDS OF KNIVES

Today’s Connections Answers

AUGUST 12 #427

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

Put some GOLD in that crown to make it more sparkly when you earn it, but probably avoid these other metals. LEAD certainly does not make a good crown, and MERCURY and TIN will not help either.

They might all be metal, but that does not make them equally good for making sparkly headwear. Save the GOLD for your crowns, use the rest for other purposes. MERCURY would not be in a solid state anyway.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

Unfortunately, it was not a category about royal or noble terms, but rather one about the more mundane world of mattress sizes. The price of them increases exponentially with the size, as well as the frame and bedding to go with it.

It is certainly a little less fun to think about, but I suppose real queens and kings have to sleep on real mattresses as well. They, however, likely do not have to worry about the price and the amount of space it takes up in their room.

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Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category is a bit more “vulgar” than the usual Connections categories, but it is not as bad as it could be. Luckily these are all fairly innocuous words, and while a THRONE could have been included with the fun royal terms instead, it ended up being for a much less fun and less restful category than the others. HEAD is also a bit unusual, and at least in American dialects very rarely ever used in this context, so it was a little confusing to figure out the last word.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

It’s very interesting to me that BUTTER, BUTTERFLY, and BUTCHER are so close together in terms of spelling and are also different kinds of knives. The base words come from very different roots as well, so it is quite curious how knives ended up with these names.

BOWIE is a bit different and did not have a similar spelling, but by this time you are mainly just selecting the last four words left anyway. Hopefully if not, the similar spelling and them all starting with a B might lead you to guess these ones anyway.

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Connections

Released

June 12, 2023

Developer(s)

The New York Times Company

Publisher(s)

The New York Times Company

ESRB

e

Platform(s)

Web Browser , Mobile