NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Monday, September 2 (Contest #449)
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 #449) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- FILE
- SHOP
- FOREIGN
- RESPONSE
- STAMP
- STATION
- LETTER
- FUNNY
- FUNNY
- COIN
- AFTER
- OUT
- POSITION
- CURIOUS
- FUNCTION
NYT Connections Today (Contest #449) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Foreign
- Vegetables: Role
- Blue: You may want a lot of it
- Purple: [a thing that links] empty
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 #449) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SPECIAL
- GREEN: ASSIGNMENT
- BLUE: CLASSIC COLLECTION ITEMS
- PURPLE: CHAIN ___
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #449) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #449, are…
- YELLOW: SPECIAL CURIOUS, FUNNY, DIFFERENT, STRANGE
- GREEN: ASSIGNMENT JOB, POSITION, POST, STATION
- BLUE: CLASSIC COLLECTION ITEMS COIN, STRIP, PLATE, STAMP
- PURPLE: CHAIN ___ LETTER, POST, RESPONSE, SHOP
- My rating: Simple
- My score: 1 error
Hooray! You can’t believe how relieved I was when I solved today’s Connections. I’m sure not everyone reading this column does this every day, so you may not necessarily realize it (or care), but before today I had failed four Connections in a row, and eight of the previous 15 games. It was a disaster. But this one isn’t so bad, and I’m back on track.
As is often the case, the key was to solve purple early. This is usually the hardest of the four groups and often involves a ‘blank’ answer, as was the case here. There was a fair amount of misdirection, with POST and STAMP among the LETTER and MAIL answers, but excluding POST as part of the ‘assignment’ group (green) pulled me away from that corner and pointed me to the CHAIN __ connection. With purple solved and green and yellow not too tricky, I didn’t have to worry about blue at all.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Sunday, September 1, Contest #448)
- YELLOW: COOKING IN A PAN BROWN, BURN, GRILL, SEASON
- GREEN: PARTS OF THE EAR ANVIL, CHANNEL, DRUM, HAMMER
- BLUE: SHADES OF BLACK CHARCOAL, JET, RAVEN, SABLE
- PURPLE: WHERE TO FIND A “DRIVER” GOLF BAG, LIMOUSINE, FILM SET, TOOL BOX
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.
