NYT Connections Game #1156 Hints, Themes, and Final Answers for August 10

NYT Connections keeps its daily rhythm—new puzzles go live at midnight in your time zone—so if you’re chasing the streak, you’re likely solving the current game while other players are still working through yesterday’s. Today’s puzzle is Connections game #1156, and we’ve got the key theme groupings and the final answers for anyone who wants to get unstuck.

Heads-up: the rest of this article contains spoilers for today’s game #1156.

NYT Connections today: game #1156 clues and solutions

From the full set of entries, the puzzle organizes into four categories. The categories are signposted by color, with these clue labels: yellow points you to “all over the place,” green focuses on “methods of concert entry,” blue corresponds to “parts of a request for payment sheet,” and purple highlights “notable small beard owners.”

The completed groups for game #1156 are:

• Yellow: HAPHAZARDLY — ANY OLD HOW, AT RANDOM, HELTER-SKELTER, WILLY-NILLY
• Green: WAYS TO RECEIVE EVENT TICKETS — MAIL DELIVERY, MOBILE TICKET, PRINT-AT-HOME, WILL CALL
• Blue: SECTIONS ON AN INVOICE — BALANCE DUE, BILL TO, ORDER NUMBER, UNIT PRICE
• Purple: FAMOUS GOATEES — BILLY GOAT, COLONEL SANDERS, DOCTOR STRANGE, THE DEVIL

If you’re using these to finish fast, the “ways to receive event tickets” category lines up cleanly once you recognize WILL CALL as an entry method, and the “invoice sections” category groups the payment/request details under the same umbrella.

For reference, the puzzle’s full word bank for game #1156 includes: BILLY GOAT, BALANCE DUE, WILLY-NILLY, MAIL DELIVERY, BILL TO, HELTER-SKELTER, WILL CALL, THE DEVIL, DOCTOR, STRANGE, ORDER NUMBER, ANY OLD HOW, MOBILE TICKET, UNIT PRICE, COLONEL SANDERS, PRINT-AT-HOME, and AT RANDOM.

How NYT Connections works (quick refresher)

NYT Connections is a word grouping game from The New York Times where you sort answers into sets of four that share a common link. The difficulty is color-coded: green is easiest, yellow is a step up, blue tends to be tougher, and purple is usually the hardest.

You can also make up to four mistakes, and the final category can be solved via elimination if you’ve already uncovered the other three. The game is available for free through the NYT Games site on both desktop and mobile.