The New York Times’ Connections puzzle for August 12, 2026 offers a manageable challenge for viewers familiar with television programming. This word game has emerged as one of the most popular offerings from the Times Games section, tasking players with discovering shared connections among words. Similar to Wordle, a fresh puzzle appears daily after midnight, with increasing levels of difficulty. The game resets each day, prompting many players to seek hints and strategies for solving the day’s challenge.
Connections requires players to identify relationships between 16 words organized into four distinct categories. Each category groups four words that share a common thread, though multiple seemingly logical connections may exist. Players are permitted four incorrect guesses before the game ends. The puzzle features color-coded difficulty levels, with yellow representing the easiest category, followed by green, blue, and purple. Players can shuffle the board layout to aid in spotting connections and have the option to share their results on social media platforms.
Today’s puzzle includes four thematic groupings: phrases meaning to emotionally retain something, types of frog species, surnames from NBC sitcoms, and words beginning with affirmative responses. The solutions are Foster, Harbor, Maintain, and Nurse for the first category; Bull, Green, Poison Dart, and Tree for frogs; Benes, Bing, Lemon, and Scott for television surnames; and Fine Print, Goodbye, Great White, and Okayama for the final category.
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