Today's puzzle explores Rome for some nets and old toys.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for August 6 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,152. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,151, 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
- Swimming Pool
- Tennis Court
- Freeway
- Hockey Rink
- Barclays Center
- Colosseum
- Supermarket
- Jacob's Ladder
- Pantheon
- Bowling Alley
- Lincoln Alley
- Alphabet Blocks
- Fishing Boat
- Trevi Fountain
- Cup-And-Ball
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Playroom
- 🟩 Green: Line up
- 🟦 Blue: Italian vacation
- 🟪 Purple: Catch
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: Classic wooden toys
- 🟩 Green: Places with lanes
- 🟦 Blue: Iconic Roman landmarks
- 🟪 Purple: Places with nets
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 6 for puzzle #1,152 are a tad harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Classic wooden toys: Alphabet blocks, cup-and-ball, jacob's ladder, lincoln logs
- 🟩 Places with lanes: Bowling alley, freeway, supermarket, swimming pool
- 🟦 Iconic Roman landscapes: Colosseum, pantheon, spanish steps, trevi fountain
- 🟪 Places with nets: Barclays center, fishing boat, hockey rink, tennis court
Lately, I've been great at picking the blues first but not seeing the purple set until late. That trend continues today.
I wasn't sure but I saw the Roman landmarks first with Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps. Colosseum and Pantheon were quick follows.
I honestly wasn't thinking lanes when I put freeway, supermarket, swimming pool and bowling alley together. For some reason, I had The Sims in mind, but it worked.
I knew the kids' toys for a while, so I just threw in the purple set of Barclays Center, fishing boat, hockey rink and tennis court without making the net connection. Honestly, I forgot who plays at Barclays but then the Nets as a team are that forgettable.
This left the toys as my final four with alphabet blocks, cup-and-ball, Jacob's Ladder and Lincoln Logs.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Navigate: Drive, manuever, pilot, steer
- 🟩 Jeans brands: Diesel, gap, lucky, wrangler
- 🟦 House styles: Cape cod, mission, ranch, tudor
- 🟪 What "stock" might refer to: Broth, cattle, investment, merchandise
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,151, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
Tudor stuck out to me as a house style; it was right below Cape Cod, which confirmed for me the housing angle. Then it was just hunting for ranch and mission.
Diesel and Lucky got me into the jeans set, then I spotted Gap before finding Wrangler.
I had seen the navigation words of drive, maneuver, pilot, and steer and assumed them to be the yellow set. So I saved it.
This means the stock words of broth, cattle, investment, and merchandise were my leftovers, though I initially didn't make the "stock" connection.
