Today’s NYT Connections puzzle for August 1, No. 1147, combines familiar household items and famous actors with technical vocabulary and a tricky bread-based word pattern.
The most misleading entries include THROW, JORDAN, BORE, BUNDLE and LOAFER. Several words have convincing everyday meanings, while the purple answers hide types of bread at their beginnings.
NYT Connections hints for August 1
- Yellow: Items commonly placed on a bed or used to keep someone comfortable.
- Green: Surnames of performers who have received an Academy Award since 2010.
- Blue: Technical actions used when making or finishing holes in a material.
- Purple: Each answer begins with the name of a familiar bread shape or type.
Main trap: THROW may initially look like an action, while BORE and DRILL can suggest unrelated verbs. In this puzzle, THROW belongs with bedding, whereas BORE and DRILL are part of the technical machining group.
Bedding clue: COMFORTER, SHAM, SHEET and THROW are all items that may be arranged on a bed. A sham is a decorative pillow covering, while a throw is a small blanket.
Actor clue: Add the appropriate first names to the four surnames. Think of Christian, Michael B., Joaquin and Christoph.
Machining clue: These words describe operations used to create, enlarge, shape or finish holes. Familiarity with workshop terminology will make this group easier to identify.
Bread clue: Focus on the beginning of each full word. The concealed bread-related forms are BOULE, BUN, LOAF and ROLL.
Today’s NYT Connections answers
Reveal the Yellow Group
Category: Bedding
Answers: COMFORTER, SHAM, SHEET, THROW
Each answer names an item associated with dressing a bed. Comforters and throws provide warmth, sheets cover the mattress, and shams are decorative pillow coverings.
Reveal the Green Group
Category: Oscar-winning actors since 2010
Answers: BALE, JORDAN, PHOENIX, WALTZ
The answers are the surnames of Academy Award winners Christian Bale, Michael B. Jordan, Joaquin Phoenix and Christoph Waltz.
Reveal the Blue Group
Category: Perform some hole-machining operations
Answers: BORE, COUNTERSINK, DRILL, REAM
These are machining actions involving holes. A hole can be drilled, bored to enlarge it, reamed for a precise finish or countersunk to create a recessed opening for a fastener.
Reveal the Purple Group
Category: Starting with bread shapes
Answers: BOULEVARD, BUNDLE, LOAFER, ROLLS-ROYCE
Each answer begins with a bread-related form: BOULEVARD starts with BOULE, BUNDLE starts with BUN, LOAFER starts with LOAF and ROLLS-ROYCE starts with ROLL.
Today’s solving lesson: When ordinary meanings fail to produce four clean groups, inspect the beginnings of longer words. A hidden prefix pattern can separate convincing decoys from the final category.
Players can attempt the official daily puzzle and review their results on the New York Times Connections page.
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