NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Wednesday, September 4 (Contest #451)
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 #451) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- CONCERN
- DISH
- TO THROW
- STAR
- CONCERN
- TRACK
- CRATE
- HASH
- SHREDDING
- BED
- CLAMP
- TO TOUCH
- PLAN
- TIP
- COLLAR
- HOST
NYT Connections Today (Contest #451) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Just a little bit
- Vegetables: Essential dog supplies
- Blue: Party time
- Purple: Look down while typing
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 #451) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: VERY SMALL AMOUNT
- GREEN: PURCHASING PUPPIES
- BLUE: HELP ORGANIZE A PARTY
- PURPLE: SYMBOLS ON A KEYBOARD
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #451) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #451, are…
- YELLOW: VERY SMALL AMOUNT TIP, SHRED, TOUCH, FOLLOW
- GREEN: PURCHASING PUPPIES BED, BOWL, COLLAR, CRATE
- BLUE: HELP ORGANIZE A PARTY CARE, HOSTESSES, PLAN, THROW
- PURPLE: SYMBOLS ON A KEYBOARD HOOK, CARET, HASH, STAR
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Failure
The only thing more frustrating than failing Connections is failing Connections when you’ve already solved two groups. That was the situation I found myself in today: I only had eight words to choose from and all four attempts were left, so surely I could combine them into two sets? But no.
To make matters worse, one of those groups was yellow, supposedly the easiest. But for some reason my brain wouldn’t (or couldn’t) merge HINT, SHRED, TOUCH, and TRACE into a group that meant VERY SMALL AMOUNT. Was that a huge mistake on my part? I suppose so—they all mean that, in some context, after all—but it seems like too tricky an answer for yellow.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Tuesday, September 3, Contest #450)
- 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
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.
