Subj : NYT Connections today hints and answers for Wednesday, October 9 To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Wed Oct 09 2024 00:15:05 NYT Connections today hints and answers for Wednesday, October 9 (game #486) Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 23:02:00 +0000 Description: Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues. What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too. SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #486) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) Today's NYT Connections words are SPIN JACKKNIFE BUBBLES PROGRESS BUTTERCUP FIZZ BLOSSOM PITCHFORK MOJO MATURE FOAM BOILERPLATE WITHERSPOON BILLBOARD DEVELOP FROTH NYT Connections today (game #486) - hint #1 - group hints What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: As with Champagne, for instance Green: Get older or better Blue: Rolling Stone is another Purple: SUPERBOWL could be one more Need more clues? We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT Connections today (game #486) - hint #2 - group answers What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: EFFERVESCENCE GREEN: BURGEON BLUE: MUSIC PUBLICATIONS PURPLE: ENDING WITH TABLEWARE Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #486) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Connections, game #486, are YELLOW: EFFERVESCENCE BUBBLES, FIZZ, FOAM, FROTH GREEN: BURGEON BLOSSOM, DEVELOP, MATURE, PROGRESS BLUE: MUSIC PUBLICATIONS BILLBOARD, MOJO, PITCHFORK, SPIN PURPLE: ENDING WITH TABLEWARE BOILERPLATE, BUTTERCUP, JACKKNIFE, WITHERSPOON My rating: Moderate My score: 2 mistakes This is not too bad, as Connections puzzles go, but it does contain some classic NYT misdirection that caused me to lose two guesses. That all concerned the purple group, the most difficult one of the four as is usually the case. Its also usually the most interesting and cryptic of the quartet, and today was no exception; what you had to do here was find four words that all contained an item of TABLEWARE at the end. The trouble was, there were potentially five of them: BOILERPLATE, BUTTERCUP, JACKKNIFE and WITHERSPOON, which ended up being the correct answers, plus PITCHFORK. I guessed a couple of combinations and got them wrong, then rather than risk falling at the first hurdle, decided to instead look elsewhere and return to that group. With the rather easy yellow and green groups out of the way I was left with a much easier task, realizing that PITCHFORK went with BILLBOARD, MOJO and SPIN to make MUSIC PUBLICATIONS, and thus confirming what the purple group was too. How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 8 October, game #485) YELLOW: HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS BAT, PUMPKIN, SPIDER, WITCH GREEN: PROHIBIT BAN, BLOCK, DENY, FORBID BLUE: FOUND ON SHEET MUSIC ACCIDENTAL, NOTE, REST, STAFF PURPLE: CANDY ___ APPLE, BAR, CANE, CORN What is NYT Connections? NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult. On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room. It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers. It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-9-october -2024 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .