NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Saturday, October 5 (Game #482)
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 pointers.
What should you do when you’re done? Of course, play some word games. 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 WARNING: Information about today’s NYT Connections is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #482) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- JACUZZI
- BIKINI
- PENDANT
- X-ray
- Q-TIP
- TOOTHBRUSH
- G STRING
- HAIRCUT
- T-BONE
- XEROX
- HIPSTER
- SKIRT
- EXCERCISE
- FILLET
- WASH BOX
- THONG
NYT Connections Today (Game #482) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Pieces of beef
- Vegetable: Hidden clothing
- Blue: Open wide!
- Purple: Remember the capital letter…
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #482) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: STEAK CUTTING
- GREEN: TYPES OF UNDERWEAR
- BLUE: INVOLVED IN A DENTAL VISIT
- PURPLE: BRANDS THAT HAVE BECOME GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #482) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #482, are…
- YELLOW: STEAK CUTTING FILET, PENDANT, SKIRT, T-BONE
- GREEN: TYPES OF UNDERWEAR BIKINI, G STRING, HIPSTER, THONG
- BLUE: INVOLVED IN A DENTAL VISIT DRILL, GUT, TOOTHBRUSH, X-RAY
- PURPLE: BRANDS THAT HAVE BECOME GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS CHAPSTICK, JACUZZI, Q-TIP, XEROX
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: 3 mistakes
Phew! I came close, losing all three guesses before solving a single connection, but managed to complete the game without any further errors. And that is undoubtedly a difficult one. Even yellow – supposedly the easiest group – contained four answers of which I only knew two. The compound was STEAK CUTS, and I got FILET and T-BONE, but hadn’t really heard of HANGER and was only vaguely aware of SKIRT. Ditto TYPES OF UNDERWEAR – BIKINI, G-STRING and THONG were okay, but I don’t really know what a HIPSTER is.
Luckily, after a lot of thinking, I managed to get blue and purple first and went home with no room for further mistakes.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, October 4, game #481)
- YELLOW: CONCAVITY DENT, DIMPLE, DING, DIVOT
- GREEN: SMALL AMOUNT DAB, DASH, DOLLOP, DROP
- BLUE: DISNEY CHARACTERS DAISY, DALE, DOC, DORY
- PURPLE: ___ DATE DELIVERY, DINNER, DREAM, EXPIRED
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the New York Times’ increasingly popular word games. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is slightly harder, blue is often quite hard, and purple is usually very hard.
On the plus side, you technically don’t have to solve the last question, because you can answer it by a process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.
It’s a bit more complicated than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, beware of homophones and other word games that can obscure the answers.
It is playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
