Today's Connections Hints & Answers For August 12, 2024 (Puzzle #427)

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Becoming royalty will be quite difficult and may take a lot of practice over time. However, with practice and learning the ins and outs, you can slowly become better and better until you are the best. Until then, we have some tips and tricks to help you learn and get some wins under your belt.

If you want a different challenge, check out the NYT puzzle which is a bite-sized piece of a traditional puzzle. Doing the every day in any newspaper is quite fun, and sitting around as a family trying to figure it out together is a nostalgic feeling. To bring that back, try this small piece to be able to finish it without spending massive amounts of time on it every day.

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

There are a lot of unknowns in every single puzzle, but the categories are the biggest mystery and the one players will have to have some understanding of to solve the puzzle.

If you still need some hints about what the categories might be, we have all of them listed out for you by color:

METAL ELEMENTS

MATTRESS SIZES

SLANG FOR TOILET

KINDS OF KNIVES

METAL ELEMENTS

GOLD

LEAD

MERCURY

TIN

Put some GOLD in that crown to make it more sparkly when you earn it, but probably avoid these other metals. LEAD certainly does not make a good crown, and MERCURY and TIN will not help either.

They might all be metal, but that does not make them equally good for making sparkly headwear. Save the GOLD for your crowns, use the rest for other purposes. MERCURY would not be in a solid state anyway.

MATTRESS SIZES

FULL

KING

QUEEN

TWIN

Unfortunately, it was not a category about royal or noble terms, but rather one about the more mundane world of mattress sizes. The price of them increases exponentially with the size, as well as the frame and bedding to go with it.

It is certainly a little less fun to think about, but I suppose real queens and kings have to sleep on real mattresses as well.