Today's puzzle gets tricky with bread and sheets.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for August 2 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,148. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,147, 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
- Like
- Airplane
- Via
- Flax
- A la
- So
- By
- Dark
- Per
- Lord
- Well
- Asea
- Through
- Beast
- Olga
- Actually
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Um
- 🟩 Green: Per my last email
- 🟦 Blue: Not the mean but the
- 🟪 Purple: Take a flight
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: Filler words
- 🟩 Green: By means of
- 🟦 Blue: ___ mode
- 🟪 Purple: U.S. airport codes plus starting letter
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 2 for puzzle #1,148 are a little easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Filler words: Actually, like, so, well
- 🟩 By means of: By, per, through, via
- 🟦 ___ mode: Airplane, beast, dark, a la
- 🟪 U.S. airport codes plus starting letter: Asea, flax, lord, olga
I hopped straight into the lukewarm end with green today, spotting a quartet of synonyms with by, per, through, and via.
Then I kicked back a bit and solved the easiest categories with a few auditory pitfalls: (um) actually, like, so, and well.
Blue (airplane, beast, dark, a la) took me a little longer because the connections with a missing word never quite click right away.
That left purple as today's rote fill with asea, flax, lord, and olga.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Bedding: Comforter, sham, sheet, throw
- 🟩 Oscar-winning actors since 2010: Bale, jordan, phoenix, waltz
- 🟦 Perform some hole machining operations: Bore, countersink, drill, ream
- 🟪 Starting with bread shapes: Boulevard, bundle, loafer, rolls-royce
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,146, which had a difficulty rating of 2.8 out of 5.
I started today trying to figure out where Rolls-Royce fit in, and loafer was my bready way in. It took a while, but that led me to boulevard and, after a strike, bundle.
From there, I saw the actors in Waltz, Phoenix, Bale and Jordan.
I saw the bedding set but figured it was for the yellow, so I put in bore, countersink, drill, and ream without initially seeing the hole connection.
I put the final four in with comforter, sham, sheet and throw.
