Today's Connections Hints & Answers For August 31, 2024 (Puzzle #446)

If you want to win today's puzzle, check out these tips to help you keep your streak alive. You do not want to lose to a small error; if you track your stats, you'll want them to look as perfect as possible. To that end, we have multiple types of tips so that you can get the information you want without getting more than you need.

If you like, you will likely also find the NYT puzzle a fun and delightful puzzling time. Like, you can track your scores and keep a streak in this one, making it easy to see how much you improve or don't over time. This one will test your knowledge of the dictionary and how well you can unscramble a set of letters into words.

Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over 1,700 words remaining as possible solutions.

If you want to have a little nudge before the main spoiler event, you can view these tips to see if they can guide you to the answers on their own:

If you still need a few pointers, you can check out the table below for all four category names with full spoilers to follow in the next section.

NEWSPAPER SECTIONS

TREE FEATURES

KINDS OF SALAD

SEEN ON BACKS OF U.S. COINS

NEWSPAPER SECTIONS

ARTS

BUSINESS

COMICS

SPORTS

I did not get this category straight away but when I did get around to it, it felt surprisingly instinctive. While most of my interaction with newspapers is not physical anymore, I am still familiar enough with the sections where this makes sense. However, I was thinking more along the lines of these being potential clubs in a school thansections in a newspaper, but it got me to the right answer so I'm not mad about it.

TREE FEATURES

BARK

CROWN

RINGS

ROOTS

This category is the one I noticed first, but perhaps that is my personal obsession with trees that led me there. I was not 100% sure if CROWN was the right terminology, but luckily it was and RINGS, ROOTS, and BARK were easy to spot and place together.

Afterward, some of the charts I looked at did not even have