Today's puzzle is a cold flight that you survive.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for August 13 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,159. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,158, 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
- Comfort
- Ease
- Shoulder
- Inch
- Miles
- Carry On
- Feet
- Checked Bags
- Creep
- Turkey
- Upgrade
- Make It
- Persist
- Edge
- Lounge
- Continue
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Nonetheless
- 🟩 Green: Sneak
- 🟦 Blue: Flying
- 🟪 Purple: It's chilly
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: Persevere
- 🟩 Green: Move slowly (up to)
- 🟦 Blue: Airline status perks
- 🟪 Purple: "Cold" things in idioms
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 13 for puzzle #1,159 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Hold onto, as a feeling: Foster, harbor, maintain, nurse
- 🟩 Kinds of frogs: Bull, green, poison dart, tree
- 🟦 NBC sitcom surnames: Benes, bing, lemon, scott
- 🟪 Starting with affirmative responses: Fine print, goodbye, great white, okayama
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,158, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
So, I took a strike on my first guess because I was chasing sharks with lemon, nurse, great white, and bull. Didn't even look around to see if they went elsewhere. Ah well.
I stuck with the animal theme after I got over the strike by chasing frogs with poison dart, tree, green and bull.
Benes (Seinfeld) and Bing (Friends) got me to the sitcoms, where I found Lemon (30 Rock) and Scott (The Office).
I noticed the feels of foster, harbor, maintain and nurse, but figured this set for yellow, so I saved those ones.
Instead, I put in the affirmative responses with fine print, goodbye, great white and okayama.
