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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 #468) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- REAL
- MEDIUM
- IMPRESSIVE
- EXCLUSIVE
- NICE
- RARE
- TERRIBLE
- MYSTIC
- WAY
- WELL DONE
- BLOODY
- LIMITED
- ORACLE
- PROPS
- COLLECTIBLE
- PSYCHIC
NYT Connections Today (Contest #468) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Future viewer
- Vegetables: Reason to want something
- Blue: Excellent!
- Purple: Terribly
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 #468) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CLAIRVOYANT
- GREEN: SPECIAL EDITION ADJECTIVES
- BLUE: “WELL DONE!”
- PURPLE: EXTREME
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #468) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #468, are…
- YELLOW: CLAIRVOYANT MEDIUM, MYSTICISM, ORACLE, PSYCHIC
- GREEN: SPECIAL EDITION ADJECTIVES COLLECTIBLE, EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED, RARE
- BLUE: “WELL DONE!” IMPRESSIVE, BEAUTIFUL, PROPS, WELL DONE
- PURPLE: EXTREME TERRIBLE, BLOODY, REALLY, TERRIBLE
- My rating: Simple
- My score: 1 error
This was a surprisingly easy Connections puzzle, even by recent standards, though I did make one mistake. It was a stupid one; I’m sure the NYT meant the wrong direction, and I fell for it head-on. I’m talking, of course, about BLOODY, RARE, WELL DONE, and MEDIUM—which could have been “Ways to Cook a Steak.” But no, all four words actually belonged to alternate groupings.
That quickly became apparent when I looked again and saw that MEDIUM, MYSTIC, ORACLE, and PSYCHIC were all words for a CLAIRVOYANT (yellow) and that COLLECTIBLE, EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED, and RARE all formed a green group for SPECIAL EDITION ADJECTIVES.
That left blue and purple, and this time neither was too complicated. No blank somethings, no clever cryptic connections – just a couple of groups, both of which were fairly obvious.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Friday, September 20, Contest #467)
- YELLOW: ASSUMING FIGURES, IMAGINE, SUSPECT, THINK
- GREEN: SOMEONE CHARACTER, INDIVIDUAL, PARTY, PERSON
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN “THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK”, CONFIDENTIAL BOBA, CHEWY, EMPEROR, SOLO
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “KITTY” CAT, CORNER, HAWK, STRAY
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.