NYT ‘Connections’ August 23: Clues and Answers for Game [Video]

Everyone has their own tactics when it comes to solving Connections.

The daily word game on the New York Times games website and app requires play to group four groups of words together to unveil their uniting theme.

Connections editor Wyna Liu has previously advised that if you find five words that might fit into a category, it’s often best to try categorizing a different group first. This strategy can help you figure out where the words truly belong by process of elimination.

“My best piece of advice is to wait as long as you can before guessing,” she said. “You may see the board and have completely identified the category, seeing five words that could belong in that category,” she told Newsweek in June.

“Don’t try to guess the four words in that category, because even though you know what the fifth member is, you won’t know which of the four it might not be,” which would ultimately waste …