Today's puzzle does not want you to pursue military codes or synonyms. So don't do that.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for August 14 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,160. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,159, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Bumblebee
- Bubble
- Bass Ale
- Charlie Brown
- Delta Airlines
- Straightedge
- Echo Chamber
- Citgo
- Caution Tape
- Google Drive
- India Ink
- Silo
- Dip Pen
- Wolverine
- Hivemind
- Bristol Board
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Stripes
- 🟩 Green: The Borg
- 🟦 Blue: Easel
- 🟪 Purple: Three sides
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Black-and-yellow
- 🟩 Green: Places where everyone thinks the same ways
- 🟦 Blue: Comic book artist's tools
- 🟪 Purple: Triangle logos
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on August 14 for puzzle #1,160 are much harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Black-and-yellow: Bumblebee, caution tape, charlie brown, wolverine
- 🟩 Places where everyone thinks the same ways: Bubble, echo chamber, hivemind, silo
- 🟦 Comic book artist's tools: Bristol board, dip pen, india ink, straightedge
- 🟪 Triangle logos: Bass ale, citgo, delta airlines, google drive
I took two strikes to start the day: one with what I thought was a NATO code connection, and the second came as I was pursuing a somewhat synonym-based connection starting with straightedge.
I was able to reset by taking what I was thinking of as striped with bumblebee, Charlie Brown, caution tape and Wolverine.
With military codes out of the way, I saw india ink as art-based, which got me to bristol board, dip pen and straightedge.
I finally got the triangle set with Delta and Citgo. It took a moment to remember Bass Ale's logo. Anyway, then Google Drive closed it out.
This left bubble, echo chamber, hivemind and silo as my final four.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Persevere: Carry on, continue, make it, persist
- 🟩 Move slowly (up to): Creep, ease, edge, inch
- 🟦 Airline status perks: Checked bags, lounge, miles, upgrade
- 🟪 "Cold" things, in idioms: Comfort, feet, shoulder, turkey
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,159, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
I'm concerned that the first thing I clicked on today was creep and edge for the green set. Anyway, ease and inch indicate some sneaking.
As I was recovering from that psychic concern, I spotted comfort and thought "cold comfort." Bam, had that set figured out, so I got cold feet, cold shoulder and cold turkey.
I refused to let go of carry on for too long, so I took several strikes before I let it go to get checked bags, lounge, miles and upgrade for the airline status perks.
Carry on finally got us to persevere with continue, make it and persist.
