Today's puzzle considers homophones at an auction.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for August 11 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,157. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,156, 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
- Toast
- Aye
- Bravo
- Sold
- Bet
- Done
- History
- Knows
- Hare
- Going
- Through
- Twice
- Once
- Sunk
- Tung
- USA
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Dire
- 🟩 Green: Showtime
- 🟦 Blue: Bought
- 🟪 Purple: Facie
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: Doomed
- 🟩 Green: Basic cable channels
- 🟦 Blue: Words in an auctioneer's chant
- 🟪 Purple: Homophones of facial features
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 11 for puzzle #1,157 are slightly harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Doomed: Done, sunk, through, toast
- 🟩 Basic cable channels: Bet, bravo, history, usa
- 🟦 Words in an auctioneer's chant: Going, once, sold, twice
- 🟪 Homophones of facial features: Aye, hare, knows, tung
I kind of sleepwalked through today's puzzle, but it did make me question how I pronounce at least one word.
USA and History are where I saw cable channels, which I followed up with BET and Bravo.
I wasn't sure about going, once, twice, sold, but I threw it in just to try. Quelle surprise.
Then I threw in the done, sunk, through, and toast because I saw it.
Which left homophone facial features of hare (hair), knows (nose) and tung (tongue). It did make me question how I say aye (eye), because I tend to think of it as having a long-a on the front, not the shorter a sound of eye. Also, the piratical aye-aye never came to mind until just now. Welp, let's move on from that embarrassment.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Haphazardly: Any old how, At random, Helter-skelter, Willy-nilly
- 🟩 Ways to receive event tickets: Mail delivery, Mobile ticket, Print-at-home, Will call
- 🟦 Sections on an invoice: Balance due, Bill to, Order number, Unit price
- 🟪 Things People Try to Get Out Of: Billy goat, Colonel Sanders, Doctor Strange, The Devil
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,156, which had a difficulty rating of 1.7 out of 5.
Today's puzzle was quite easy, though I did go out of order (again). I started with green, figuring out the event tickets. Perhaps I go to too many concerts, but this jumped out at me almost instantly.
From there, my time as a freelancer kicked in, and I noticed the items that go on an invoice, which is the blue category in today's Connections puzzle.
Finally, I figured out yellow, realizing that they were all about things being placed randomly (I admit, I don't know if I've heard helter-skelter used that way — I always just associated it with Charles Manson and The Beatles.
Anyway, process of elimination got me to purple, though I had no idea how they connected until it actually showed me.
