NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Monday, October 7 (Game #484)
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 #484) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- KING KONG
- WHOOP
- ВЕЕР ВЕЕР
- Yahoo
- DING-DONG
- HAR-HAR
- КОКО
- HOOT
- SKRRT
- TO CALL
- DODO
- MUSTACHES
- YAK
- YO-YO
- VROOM
- GEORGE
NYT Connections Today (Game #484) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Idiot
- Vegetable: Sounds like a car noise
- Blue: Laughter sounds
- Purple: Great apes (and monkeys)
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 #484) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: KNUCKLE HEAD
- GREEN: AUTO-ONOMATOPOEIA
- BLUE SOUNDS
- PURPLE: FAMOUS PRIMATES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #484) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #484, are…
- YELLOW: KNUCKLE HEAD DING-DONG, DODO, Yahoo, YO-YO
- GREEN: AUTO-ONOMATOPOEIA BEEP BEEP, MUSTACHE, SKRRT, VROOM
- BLUE SOUNDS HAR-HAR, HOOT, WHOOP, YUK
- PURPLE: FAMOUS PRIMATES BUBBLES, GEORGE, KING KONG, KOKO
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: Failure
Wow, this was really tough. I didn’t manage to solve it – in fact, I didn’t manage to solve all but one of the groups – but I’m not particularly mad at myself because it was just too hard.
The one I got was purple, FAMOUS PRIMATES. This was supposedly the hardest of the four, but I found it much more manageable than the other three (obviously, since I failed them all). I did make a start on the others – for example I saw that CAR ONOMATOPOEIA was probably one, with BEEP BEEP and VROOM, but I’d never heard of SKRRT and thought HOOT was probably one too. The others were all a bit baffled, but I doubt I’m the only one having a problem with this.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, October 6, game #483)
- YELLOW: TURN TAIL FLEE, DEPARTURE, RETREAT, RETREAT
- GREEN: THINGS CATS DO KNEES, TRACES, SCRATCHES, LOSS
- BLUE: PAGES ON A WEBSITE ABOUT, CONTACT, HOME, LOGIN
- PURPLE: ___ CHEESE STAY, CREAM, GOAT, string
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.
