NYT Connections Solution And Hints For August 20, 2026

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Sign in to your ScreenRant account Today's Connections creates a puzzle dedicated to words that already have some type of categorical foundation. Most phrases are part of a larger whole, meaning that you have to figure out a larger concept before breaking down other ones in front of you. This requires some intuition and clever thinking, which can be difficult without some hints to guide you. You only have four chances to make a mistake before losing a game of Connections, limiting your options as you play. The best advice for any day of Connections is to take your time to understand many possible contexts one phrase could mean besides what seems obvious. Similar to the Letter Boxed NYT puzzles, you have to find patterns to correctly discover the right path. Today's Connections Category Hints August 20 #1167 Finding out how certain terms are organized in today's Connections will make the categories far easier to see. That being said, you still have to imagine a broader context for certain words, and not just take them at their face value. There are a lot of phrases that may seem disconnected in the puzzle, but looking up what some could mean may give you the clues you need to fit them together. If you want to know some hints regarding today's puzzle categories, check out these clues below: One category is about titles for variations of a certain type of food that originates from Italy. One category is about types of numeric sequences you'd associate with identification. One category is about phrases whose physical depictions could be mistaken for one another. One category is about words that have titles of a specific calendar year hidden within them from a culture that celebrates New Years differently. If you want to go all out with some of your clue-searching, you should look at the category names to get some extra help. There are also spoilers for each category if you find yourself needing to solve a single category to finish up. KINDS OF PIZZA KINDS OF NUMBERS SIMILARLY SHAPED TYPOGRAPHICAL MARKS STARTING WITH CHINESE ZODIAC ANIMALS Today's Connections Answers August 20 #1167 Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained KINDS OF PIZZA DIAVOLA HAWAIIAN MEAT LOVERS WHITE Anyone who's hungry might immediately recognize the phrase MEAT LOVERS as a specific pizza type, which can be applied to HAWAIIAN as well. Although you might not be someone who likes pineapple on a HAWAIIAN pizza, just putting these words with each other reveals the category at hand. DIAVOLA and WHITE pizzas may be more uncommon compared to simple pepperoni and cheese slices, but they still fit this section of the puzzle well. Green Answers: Revealed & Explained KINDS OF NUMBERS ATOMIC SOCIAL SECURITY SERIAL TELEPHONE When doing these Connections, I put SOCIAL SECURITY and SERIAL together first, as I imagined the category was related to phrases tied to sequences of numbers. This was only partially true, as those words are actually complete sentences for "Social Security Number" and "Serial Number" you'd find to identify a person or product. With that in mind, an ATOMIC or TELEPHONE number also helps categorize and define a specific sequence. Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained SIMILARLY SHAPED TYPOGRAPHICAL MARKS APOSTROPHE CEDILLA COMMA OKINA Even if you aren't aware of this category at first, you can at least put APOSTROPHE and COMMA in the same section because they both are grammar terms. However, you may need to look up how OKINA and CEDILLA are also part of language typography, but not quite the same. To come to the right conclusion, you need to see how these grammar terms look visually, to see the similarities between their shapes. Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained STARTING WITH CHINESE ZODIAC ANIMALS DRAGONFLY OXFORD PIGMENT RATCHET This category is difficult for you might take some words at face value, such as mistaking DRAGONFLY for the animal or OXFORD for the city. Only by looking closely at these words structure can you see animals make up a large part of them, with "Dragon" in DRAGONFLY and "Ox" in OXFORD. These are zodiac years on the Chinese New Year calendar, with "Pig" in PIGMENT and "Rat" in RATCHET putting this Connections in its final state. Other Games Like Connections If you are looking for another puzzle to play, check out one of the ones in the box below. Systems Released June 12, 2023 ESRB e Developer(s) The New York Times Company Publisher(s) The New York Times Company Platform(s) Web Browser, Mobile