Today's Connections Hints & Answers For August 15, 2024 (Puzzle #430)

Perhaps you are brand new or perhaps your skills are a bit dusty in the daily puzzle. These puzzles can be challenging or they can be a little easier depending on how much the editor seeks to misdirect us each day. Today, there are some ways of misdirecting us, but that just means we will have to give you the best hints we can to keep you on your winning streak.

If you are not yet tired of puzzles, the NYT puzzle is a great one to add to your day. If you have ever wanted to do a paint-by-numbers without the mess, this puzzle lets you do it as you complete it. However, instead of simply grabbing the next color, you must also make the lines between each box yourself and figure out where they go before you get to color in anything.

The Spelling Bee puzzles created as a New York Times game build a streak of correct answers to get you more points, but they can be hard to keep.

To help you stir up the dust and clear the area to solve the puzzle, we have some starting hints for you that might jog enough of your memory that you can guess what the categories are and finish the puzzle.

If you still need a few more hints, we can get you going there too! Not everyone can see the same patterns and ideas in categories, and it's better to learn than to give up, at least where is concerned.

BREADTH

OTHER HALF

BEERS, FAMILIARLY

WORDS AFTER «PAY»

BREADTH

EXTENT

RANGE

REACH

SCOPE

This one feels like the easiest one of the day, as each of these references exactly what they say they do. Even when these words have other definitions, such as SCOPE, there is still a sense of scale there.

This makes it a little easier to put this one together without thinking too hard about it. Or, at least, I didn't have to REACH for the answers for this category in the same way the RANGE might lengthen as the puzzle goes on.

OTHER HALF

COMPLEMENT

MATCH

MATE

PARTNER

The romantic in me likes to think these words are cute, especially when seen side-by-side like this. However, here is