Hints and Answers for Today’s Connections on August 12, 2024 (Puzzle #427)

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Tips for Today’s Connections category

AUGUST 12 #427

There are many unknowns in every single Connections puzzle, but the categories represent the biggest mystery and are what players will have to understand to solve the puzzle.

• A category does not concern terms for nobility
• A category concerns something that is found on earth
• A category refers to a group of slang terms for the same thing.
• One category concerns dangerous sticks

If you still need some suggestions on what the categories might be, we’ve listed them all for you by color:

Answers to today’s connections

AUGUST 12 #427

Yellow Answers: Revealed and Explained

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

They it could be all metalbut that doesn’t make them equally suitable for making glittering headdresses. Save the GOLD for your crowns, use the rest for other purposes. The MERCURY wouldn’t be solid anyway.

Green Answers: Revealed and Explained

Unfortunately, this was not a category about royal or noble terms, but rather a category about terms world more banal than the size of mattressesTheir price increases exponentially with size, as well as with the frame and matching bedding.

It’s certainly a little less fun to think about, but I suppose even real queens and kings need to sleep on real mattresses. They, however, probably don’t need to worry about the price and the amount of space they take up in their bedroom.

Blue Answers: Revealed and Explained

This category is a little more “vulgar” than usual Connections categories, but it’s not as bad as it could be. Luckily they’re all pretty innocuous words, and while a THRONE could have been included with the fun royal terms, it ended up being for a category much less fun and less relaxing than the othersHEAD is also a bit of an unusual term and, at least in American dialects, is very rarely used in this context, so it was a bit tricky to figure out the last word.

Purple Answers: Revealed and Explained

It’s very interesting to me that BUTTER, BUTTERFLY and BUTCHER are so similar in spelling and are also different types of knives. The basic words also come from very different roots, so it’s It’s quite curious how knives ended up with these names.

BOWIE is a little different and doesn’t have a similar spelling, but at this point you’re still mostly picking the last four remaining words. Hopefully, if not, the similar spelling and the fact that they all start with a B will lead you to guess these anyway.

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