NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Tuesday, September 3 (Contest #450)
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be tricky, so read on if you need some clues.
What do you do when you’re done? Well, play some word games of course. I also have daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help with those too.
SPOILER ALERT: Below is information about today’s NYT Connections. So don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #450) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- AT
- REAL
- FOR
- SAVE
- WON
- ARROW
- EXTRA
- POND
- KNUCKLE
- EXCUSE
- ABOUT
- BLOCK
- TO RESCUE
- PAST
- PARDON
- YEN
NYT Connections Today (Contest #450) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Forgive
- Vegetables: More
- Blue: Money, money, money
- Purple: empty [word for a part of the body]
Do you need more pointers?
We’re really getting into 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 #450) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: ABSOLUTELY
- GREEN: EXCESSIVE
- BLUE: WORLDWIDE CURRENCIES
- PURPLE: ___HEAD
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #450) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #450, are…
- YELLOW: ABSOLUTELY EXCUSE, PARDON, RED, SAVE
- GREEN: EXCESSIVE OUTSIDE, EXTRA, OVER, TOO
- BLUE: WORLDWIDE CURRENCIES POUND, REAL, WON, YEN
- PURPLE: ___HEAD ARROW, BLOCK, FRONT, KNUCKLES
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
I almost went the wrong way here, when I saw that WON, TOO, and FORE were all homophones for numbers, and I wondered if any of the others would fit that pattern. And then I thought maybe there was a ‘ball’ connection – as in KNUCKLE ball, SPARE ball, EXTRA ball… but for once I didn’t play the first thing I saw and instead kept searching until I found a group that just had to be correct. That was the blue group GLOBAL CURRENCIES, with POUND, REAL, WON, and YEN, and I followed that up with the hardest purple group, a classic blank [something] connection that this time was ‘words that go before the head’. With those two complete, the others were easy to catch.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Monday, September 2, Contest #449)
- YELLOW: SPECIAL CURIOUS, FUNNY, DIFFERENT, STRANGE
- GREEN: ASSIGNMENT JOB, POSITION, POST, STATION
- BLUE: CLASSIC COLLECTION ITEMS COIN, STRIP, PLATE, STAMP
- PURPLE: CHAIN ___ LETTER, POST, RESPONSE, SHOP
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games from the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a bit harder, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically have to solve the last question, because you can answer it by elimination. Plus, you can make a maximum of four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.
It is a bit more complicated than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that can obscure the answers.
It is free to play via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
