NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Friday, October 4 (Game #481)
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 #481) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- DROP
- DASH
- DAISY
- DREAM
- THING
- DOC
- DINNER
- DAB
- VALLEY
- BECAUSE of
- Dimple
- DELIVERY
- DENT
- DOLLOP
- DORY
- GRASS SOD
NYT Connections Today (Game #481) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Something you might get in a minor car accident
- Vegetable: Little bit
- Blue: From the House of Mouse
- Purple: Empty [word that can mean a calendar entry]
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 #481) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CONCAVITY
- GREEN: SMALL AMOUNT
- BLUE: DISNEY CHARACTERS
- PURPLE: ___ DATE
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #481) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #481, are…
- 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
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
Today’s Connections puzzle was very simple. Almost too simple, in fact: I had the whole thing done and dusted in about 5 minutes. I know, I know – I complain when they’re too hard, but also when they’re too easy. What can I say, I’m hard to please.
Anyway, I started with the green group here – SMALL AMOUNT – and discovered that DAB, DASH, DOLLOP, DROP all mean pretty much the same thing. Yellow was just as simple. As is usually the case, blue and purple required a bit more thought, and to be honest I might not have solved purple if it wasn’t standard; this was actually quite tricky since it was one of the NYT’s favorites [blank] something answers, and these can be difficult to solve. As it happens, that wasn’t necessary – because blue was DISNEY CHARACTERS, and I spent so much time watching classic cartoons that I discovered the connection after just a little thinking.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, October 3, game #480)
- YELLOW: DRINKS JUICE, MILK, PUNCH, Soft Drink
- GREEN: CARE OF A PLANT Fertilizing, pot, pruning, watering
- BLUE: ITEM SOLD IN PAIR BOOKEND, EARBUG, SKI, SOCK
- PURPLE: BUGS PLUS STARTING LETTER BLOUSE, PANTS, SMITE, STICK
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.
