NYT Connections hint (Sun, 2 Aug)

We get it. Sunday is for relaxing! After a long week at work you don't even want to use your brain enough to make dinner some Sundays. If a Sunday reset is what you need but you still want to keep hold of that streak, we've got you.

We've got hints and answers here so you can best any Connections puzzle. And the best part is, the NYT will never know!

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Connections hint for Sunday 2nd August

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Words you try to limit while public speaking.
• 🟩 Green hint: One thing helping another get from A to B.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Just add a word and you're in a different mode!
• 🟪 Purple hint: Frequent flyers may spot this pattern before anyone else.
• Extra hint 1: One set hides its words inside others.
• Extra hint 2: Every group except purple has at least one word containing the letter 'T'

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• 🟨 Yellow: So
• 🟩 Green: By
• 🟦 Blue: Dark
• 🟪 Purple: Flax

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

Today's Connections groups revealed

If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today's Connections puzzle, below we'll reveal the four correct Connections groups - the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• 🟨 Yellow: Filler Words
• 🟩 Green: By Means of
• 🟦 Blue: ___ Mode
• 🟪 Purple: U.S. Airport Codes Plus Starting Letter

Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today's puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections answer lies ahead!

Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Sunday, 2nd August:

• 🟨 Yellow: Filler Words (Actually, Like, So, Well)
• 🟩 Green: By Means of (By, Per, Through, Via)
• 🟦 Blue: ___ Mode (Airplane, Beast, Dark, À La)
• 🟪 Purple: U.S. Airport Codes Plus Starting Letter (Asea, Flax, Lord, Olga)

If you're well versed in your speech, grammar, technology, and travel, then today's puzzle would have been a breeze! The yellow category consisted of those filler words that sneak themselves into every conversation, the green group gathered prepositions meaning 'by means of', the blue group centered on familiar expressions ending with 'mode', and the purple group hid airport codes inside its words. This one really put those pattern recognition skills to the test!

Let us know in the comments below how you found today's puzzle! Here's my grid:

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Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!