Today's Connections Hints & Answers For August 4, 2024 (Puzzle #419)

To become a true champ at , you need daily practice with every new puzzle. Luckily, we also have some tips and tricks that will help you learn as you go. Soon enough, you will become even better than us, and then we will be a bit out of luck, but you will be steamrolling every new puzzle that comes.

If you like, you should try out the game from the NYT. is all about picture matching and trying to keep the longest streak you can. In time, you will start noticing more and more pairs and be able to hop from one to the other with no problems at all, getting a massive streak and boasting a high score to all of your friends.

Four categories with four words each sounds simple, but the daily challenge of the Connections game can prove difficult without a few tips to help.

If you just need a few tips and tricks, you should check out these hints before heading into the spoiler section:

From there, if you still need some hints for today, especially considering the confusing animal words spread in there, you can check out the category names in the box below:

KIDDO

UP FOR IT

BEGINNING WITH DOUBLE LETTERS

NICKNAMES FOR THE SEA, WITH «THE»

KIDDO

BUDDY

CHAMP

SPORT

TIGER

A few nicknames seem to go with kids from older people, mostly dads, and these are a lot of them."" can easily be used in the exact same tone as any of these names, although CHAMP and SPORT are the most common that I have heard. BUDDY: I strictly reserve for my cat, particularly when he is doing something less smart than usual. TIGER is the potentially wild card here, as there are a lot of animal-related words, but it does belong here.

UP FOR IT

AMENABLE

DOWN

GAME

WILLING

If you are DOWN or WILLING for something, you are often AMENABLE toward it. These words, including GAME, all have an aspect of being ready to do something. I am always down to watch, for instance. This category is fairly straightforward today, with very few other words that could be used instead of these words. This category is