Today's puzzle goes on a staycation in New York, pursuing some peddle-based activities.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for August 4 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,150. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,149, 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
- Cigarette
- Peace Sign
- Piano
- Taxi Cab
- Chevron
- Unicycle
- Pigeon
- Pool Noodle
- Sewing Machine
- Angle Bracket
- Pretzel Rod
- Bodega
- Subway Station
- Foam Roller
- Swan Boat
- Goose Formation
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Tubular
- 🟩 Green: Tourist
- 🟦 Blue: Riding
- 🟪 Purple: for Victory
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: Long cylindrical things
- 🟩 Green: Iconic NYC sights
- 🟦 Blue: Things with pedals
- 🟪 Purple: V-shaped things
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 4 for puzzle #1,150 are much easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Roads less traveled: Alley, backstreet, byway, lane
- 🟩 Shades of green: Forest, hunter, mint, sage
- 🟦 'Y' is the only vowel: Fly by, myrrh, nysnc, rhythm
- 🟪 Starting with synonyms for 'pester': Bug fix, nag champa, needless, tea set
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,149, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
Today's puzzle was a brutal one, but I managed to make it down the line today. I had hoped the yellow category was a Robert Frost reference, and I was right. The answers are alley, backstreet, byway, and lane.
After that I dipped into a bit of color theory to find the suitably green category, with forest, hunter, mint, and sage.
Then it was onto blue, which took me a while until I remembered that, sometimes, y is a vowel, and that's one fly by, myrrh, nsync, and rhythm, all shared.
That left purple as today's rote fill with bug fix, nag champa, needless, and tea set.
