Today's puzzle builds a stock for a new home.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for August 5 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,151. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,150, 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
- Lucky
- Mission
- Ranch
- Cattle
- Wrangler
- Investment
- Gap
- Steer
- Broth
- Pilot
- Cape Cod
- Merchandise
- Drive
- Diesel
- Tudor
- Manuever
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Travel
- 🟩 Green: Pantaloons
- 🟦 Blue: Home
- 🟪 Purple: Groups of
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: Navigate
- 🟩 Green: Jeans brands
- 🟦 Blue: House styles
- 🟪 Purple: What "stock" might refer to
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 5 for puzzle #1,150 are a bit easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Long cylindrical things: Cigarette, foam roller, pool noodle, pretzel rod
- 🟩 Iconic NYC sights: Bodega, pigeon, subway station, taxi cab
- 🟦 Things with pedal: Piano, sewing machine, subway station, unicycle
- 🟪 V-shaped things: Piano, sewing machine, swan boat, unicycle
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,150, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
After yesterday's hard 4-rated puzzle, today's 2.5 was a bit friendlier.
I started with the NYC sights of bodega, pigeon, subway station and taxi cab, mostly to clear the board so I could see the blues and purples. This helped since I already knew the cylinders of cigarette, foam roller, pool noodle and pretzel rod. I entered that set last.
Clearing the board a bit helped me see the peddles since piano and sewing machine landed next to each other. Then I was able to find swan boat and unicycle.
This left angle bracket, chevron, goose formation, and peace sign where the peace sign finally clicked into place for me.
