NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Friday, September 6 (Contest #453)
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 #453) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- CATALOG
- EPISODE
- LETTER
- RINSE
- COUNT
- SEASON
- MATTER
- NUMBER
- BOUNCE
- ACCOUNT
- GEYSER
- AFFAIR
- TOTAL
- EVENT
- CARD
- QUANTITY
NYT Connections Today (Contest #453) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: To count
- Vegetables: Event
- Blue: They are worried!
- Purple: Seasonal word?
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 #453) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: AMOUNT
- GREEN: INCIDENT
- BLUE: RECEIVING THINGS IN THE MAIL
- PURPLE: WHAT “SPRING” REFERS TO
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #453) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #453, are…
- YELLOW: AMOUNT AMOUNT, NUMBER, COUNT, TOTAL
- GREEN: INCIDENT AFFAIR, EPISODE, EVENT, MATTER
- BLUE: RECEIVING THINGS IN THE MAIL INVOICE, CARD, CATALOGUE, LETTER
- PURPLE: WHAT “SPRING” REFERS TO BOUNCE, RINSE, GEYSER, SEASON
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
Yesterday I went on a big rant about Connections, and how boring it gets every day because of the seemingly random difficulty. Well, I’m not going to complain today – because I did solve it. And not only that, I solved it without any errors.
In reality, it’s a decidedly easy version of the game. Purple is the hardest group, as is usually the case, but I didn’t have to worry about that because the other three were all easy. The blue group in particular – which is theoretically the third hardest – was less complicated than it often is. That answer was THINGS RECEIVED IN THE MAIL, with BILL, CARD, CATALOG and LETTER all quite clearly related.
I suspect we’ll be in impossibly difficult terrain again tomorrow, but until then I’ll enjoy a rare victory.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Thursday, September 5, Contest #452)
- YELLOW: HAIR SALON OFFERS BLOW OUT, COLOR, CUT, TRIM
- GREEN: CRITICISM BASH, BLAST, PAN, SLAM
- BLUE: OBTAIN BAG, LAND, SCORE, SNAG
- PURPLE: MEASURED IN FOOTBALL STATISTICS ATTEMPT, RECEPTION, BAG, GARDEN
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.
