NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, September 8 (Contest #455)
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 #455) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- FROST
- BEACH
- PUMP
- POPE
- RACE
- BISHOP
- PET SHOP
- POND
- STRONG
- DEFEAT
- PRIOR
- BAKING
- TO BEAT
- BAD
- PREHEAT
- PASTOR
NYT Connections Today (Contest #455) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Instructions for cooking
- Vegetables: Coronary actions
- Blue: Religious Views
- Purple: empty [not girls]
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 #455) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: VERBS IN A CAKE RECIPE
- GREEN: WHAT A HEART DOES WHEN IT’S EXCITED
- BLUE: CHURCH TITLES
- PURPLE: ___ BOYS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #455) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #455, are…
- YELLOW: VERBS IN A CAKE RECIPE BAKING, WHIPPING, DEFROSTING, PREHEATING
- GREEN: WHAT A HEART DOES WHEN IT’S EXCITED POND, PUMP, RACE, STORM
- BLUE: CHURCH TITLES BISHOP, PASTOR, POPE, PRIOR
- PURPLE: ___ BOYS BAD, BEACH, HARDY, PET STORE
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 2 mistakes
Today’s Connections puzzle is full of misdirection. Virtually every group had a different answer that could have fit into it, and there were several other possible connections that turned out to be dead ends. Take BEAT, BAKE, FROST, PREHEAT – which ended up being the easiest yellow group, VERBS IN A PIE RECIPE: POUND could also have been a recipe word, and I tried that with several other combinations before I got the right quartet. And similarly, the WHAT A HEART DOES WHEN EXCITED group (green) could easily have contained BEAT if it had simply been WHAT A HEART DOES.
Luckily purple was a relatively easy [blank] format today; the second I saw PET SHOP I thought ‘BOYS’ and it wasn’t hard to identify BEACH, HARDY and BAD to form that group. Ditto the blue ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES group. So, overall not that hard, but far from a piece of cake (even if cakes were one theme).
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Saturday, September 7, Contest #454)
- YELLOW: WAYS TO TRANSFORM AN IMAGE CROP, FLIP, ROTATE, SCALE
- GREEN: THINGS USED IN GOLF BALL, DRIVER, GLOVE, T-SHIRT
- BLUE: AQUARIUM PURCHASES FILTER, PUMP, ROCKS, TANK
- PURPLE: LOGOS WITH HORSES COACH, GODIVA, MUSTANG, POLO
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.
