NYT ‘Connections' #1162 Hints And Answers For Sunday, August 16

Another Sunday and another tricky NYT Connections to solve. If you’re looking for help with today’s puzzling NYT Connections puzzle, this guide is here to help with some extra clues and every connection for the Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple groups.

Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day.

The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.

There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.

You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again.

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Here are today’s Connections words: STEP FROM NEANDER GIG AGENT GRAND WISE SHOW HALF PLAYER CONCERT HANDY PARTY GREAT SET ACTOR UPRIGHT

Here’s an Extra Hint for Each Connections Group

🟡Yellow group – Live music.

🟢Green group – A member of a group or event or incident.

🔵Blue group – You might tack these onto “brother” or “mother.”

🟣Purple group – Do the evolution.

One Word for Each Connections Group:

🟡Yellow group – Gig

🟢Green group – Agent

🔵Blue group – Grand

🟣Purple group – From Neander

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:

🟡Yellow group – Musical Performance

🟢Green group – Participant

🔵Blue group – Family Relationship Modifiers

🟣Purple group – Descriptors for Our Human Ancestors

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers fol...