Today’s Connections Hints and Answers for August 29, 2024 (Riddle #444)

While you are trying to get the correct answers for today Connections Riddle, you may find yourself here for some tips. It’s always best to use your own judgment, but you can see if our hints help you make that final judgment call. Then you can feel relieved that you got the answers right, sit back and see how long your streak is.

If you want to try another puzzle, you can see the NYT daily Mini-crossword To see how well you like it. like ConnectionsYou need a range of knowledge Between word searches and spellings as well as more pop culture knowledge To help you think outside the box and get the right category or word in a crossword. The further along you get, the better your chances of survival.

Hints for today’s connections category

August 29 #444

If you need a bit of prompting without any answers, here are a few hints that can help light your way. These are all related to particular categories and can help you solve the puzzle on your own.

• One category has to do with something musical
• One category has to do with how you think
• One category has to do with higher education
• One category has to do with companies associated with a similar trait

If you still need some prompting, you can check out the following category names. This is often the biggest breakthrough, because understanding what you’re looking for is often more than half the battle.

	Types of pianos
	DEEM
	Colleges/Universities
	Second names in companies with ampersands

Today’s connections answers

August 29 #444

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This was interesting because I haven’t had a lot of experience with it Different types of pianos. I think if there were more hints to be specifically a piano, it would have been clear to me sooner, but I didn’t solve this first. I think looking at UPRIGHT and GRAND has the best potential to clue you in, but that may also depend on whether or not you mix it with a bass.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one is a little easier and was the one I leaned to first because the words all have a different feeling than the others. COUNT is a slightly different definition that I normally wouldn’t put in this category however In other contexts, it definitely fits. Anyway, this felt like the easiest and clearest category to get in today’s puzzle, and hopefully you felt the same way.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This is difficult if you are not familiar with a Wide range of higher education in the US. Fortunately, if you recognize just one of these and connect the other names to it, you may be able to find out what other college names are. DUKE and HOWARD feel the most recognizable, with BROWN coming in next. SMITH is a little harder because of how generic it is, especially since there are also generic last names in the purple category today.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one is hard and oddly quite specific. I think the better hope is that you recognize these as half of a company name and Later discover that they all share the ampersand in common. Maybe your brain works differently than mine and you can figure out the connection earlier, but it’s best to have the words last in the puzzle so you don’t have to figure out the connection on your own.

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