NYT Connections — August 7, 2026

Today's board starts at a cozy scented table decoration, cools way down, takes a ride between floors, and ends with a menagerie hiding in plain sight.

Yellow (easiest): think about what a candle on your shelf is actually made of — the container, the scent, and the parts that burn.

Green: everything in this set is cold, from the stuff in your kitchen keeping food fresh to what falls in winter and what a lab keeps in a special tank.

Blue: picture stepping into an elevator — the things you press, what pulls the car, what drives it, and the space it travels through.

Purple (hardest): read only the first few letters of each word and you'll find a male deer, a male donkey, a male sheep and a male cat — the rest of each word is just a disguise.