NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Monday, September 23 (Contest #470)
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 #470) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- CHIP
- BED
- ROUGH
- PATCH
- ROCKY
- LURCH
- PARALLEL
- UNEVEN
- ROBUST
- SOUTH
- ENTERTAINMENT
- STORYLINE
- NATIONAL
- PLOT
- SCRATCHING
- BUMPY
NYT Connections Today (Contest #470) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Land that is not flat
- Vegetables: Soil that can be used for gardening
- Blue: Another one could be Tom
- Purple: Empty [open green space]
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 #470) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: NOT SLIPPERY, LIKE TERRAIN
- GREEN: A PIECE OF LAND TO GROW
- BLUE: MEMBER OF A CARTOON DUO
- PURPLE: ___ PARK
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #470) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #470, are…
- YELLOW: NOT SLIPPERY, LIKE TERRAIN BULLY, ROUGH, ROBUST, UNEVEN
- GREEN: A PIECE OF LAND TO GROW BED, PLOT, PLOT, PLOT
- BLUE: MEMBER OF A CARTOON DUO CHIP, ROCKY, SCRATCHABLE, STICK
- PURPLE: ___ PARK ENTERTAINMENT, NATIONAL, PARALLEL, SOUTH
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
This may be the easiest connection puzzle I’ve had in weeks – so much so that I solved the blue and purple groups first, in about two minutes.
I got blue first, with the word SCRATCHY immediately jumping out because of my love of The Simpsons (classic era, of course; we’re talking seasons 3-9, nothing more). Once I saw that SCRATCH and ROCKY were there too, the connection became clear, and AMUSEMENT and NATIONAL similarly led me straight to the usually difficult purple group, ___PARK. Yellow and green were a bit harder, in my experience, but only slightly; this wasn’t a Connections game to worry about.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Sunday, September 22, Contest #469)
- YELLOW: COLOR TYPES GRAYSCALE, NEON, NEUTRAL, PASTEL
- GREEN: FILE MENU OPTIONS NEW, OPEN, PRINT, SAVE
- BLUE: CHANCE TO WIN A PRIZE DRAWING, LOTTERY, POOL, RAFFLE
- PURPLE: WHAT “BRONZE” MIGHT MEAN ALLOY, SCULPTURE, SOLAR, THIRD
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.
