NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Saturday, September 14 (Contest #461)
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 #461) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- LION
- SWITCH
- RETRO
- HAMBURGER
- VINTAGE
- SUB
- PROM
- SLIDE SLIDE
- SUPER
- GRAPE
- KNOB
- CALIFORNIA
- REGION
- KNOB
- PRO
- WINERY
NYT Connections Today (Contest #461) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Read the label
- Vegetables: Touch this
- Blue: They go for
- Purple: Empty [royal title]
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 #461) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: WINE BOTTLE INFO
- GREEN: CONSOLE INPUTS
- BLUE: PREFIXES
- PURPLE: ___ KING
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #461) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #461, are…
- YELLOW: WINE BOTTLE INFO GRAPE, REGION, VINTAGE, WINERY
- GREEN: CONSOLE INPUTS BUTTON, KNOB, SLIDER, SWITCH
- BLUE: PREFIXES PRO, RETRO, SUB, SUPER
- PURPLE: ___ KING CITIZEN, CALIFORNIA, LION, PROM
- My rating: Simple
- My score: 2 mistakes
Today’s Connections is another one that’s pretty straightforward. It doesn’t require too much specialist knowledge to begin with – KNOB, BUTTON, SLIDE, and SWITCH are just common words, for example. And while the WINE BOTTLE INFO group might be easier for people who drink wine, none of the answers are remotely obscure.
The one I technically didn’t solve was blue – which in retrospect was one of the easiest. That group was PREFIXES, with the answers PRO, SUB, RETRO and SUPER – all of which should have really occurred to me. But instead I focused on the [blank] king group, after spotting BURGER, LION and PROM. The problem was I couldn’t find the fourth, I guessed SUPER and PRO (random) before finally going for CALIFORNIA to complete the set. I don’t know what a CALIFORNIA KING is but I figured it out eventually so who cares…
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Friday, September 13, Contest #460)
- YELLOW: VITALITY ENERGY, JUICE, LIFE, ZIPPER
- GREEN: PALINDROMES WITH “E” LEVEL, PEP, REFER, TENET
- BLUE: AS SEEN IN “JACK AND THE BOANSTALK” BEANS, COW, GIANTS, JACK
- PURPLE: CAR MODELS BEETLE, CIVIC, FOCUS, VOLT
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.
