NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Saturday, September 28 (Game #475)
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 #475) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- QUALITY
- BIRTH
- HOUSE
- PLANT
- REMOTELY
- LODGE
- HYBRID
- CONNECTION
- CROTCH
- CRUISE
- STICK
- HOTEL
- TOKEN
- MIX
- WEDGE
- DEED
NYT Connections Today (Game #475) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Mix
- Vegetable: Place deep
- Blue: Pass go
- Purple: Empty [switch or button?]
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 #475) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: COMPOSITE
- GREEN: BUILT-IN
- BLUE: ITEMS IN A MONOPOLY BOX
- PURPLE: ___ CONTROL
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #475) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #475, are…
- YELLOW: COMPOSITE MIXTURE, COMPOUND, CROSS, HYBRID
- GREEN: BUILT-IN LODGE, PLANT, STICK, WEDGE
- BLUE: ITEMS IN A MONOPOLY BOX deed, hotel, house, sign
- PURPLE: ___ CONTROL BIRTH, CRUISE, QUALITY, DISTANCE
- My rating: Simple
- My score: 1 mistake
My streak is now 23, a far cry from the days of failing eight Connections puzzles in 15 days. Admittedly, this was a fairly easy task. I made one mistake by guessing HOTEL, HOUSE, LODGE and COMPOUND as places you could live, but when that was wrong I looked again and saw the COMPOSITE connection that united BLEND, COMPOUND, CROSS and HYBRID.
Meanwhile, HOUSE and HOTEL joined DAAD and TOKEN for a MONOPOLY themed group, and I also solved the supposedly hardest purple group, which was one of the NYT’s favorite blank ___ answers.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, September 27, game #474)
- YELLOW: AREA OF HIGH GROUND BANK, DUNE, HILL, HILL
- GREEN: MEANING GRAVITY, IMPORT, DUST, WEIGHT
- BLUE: ACTIONS IN FANTASY SPORTS BANK, DRAFT, START, TRADE
- PURPLE: SCI-FI FILMS, WITH “THE” ABYSS, FLY, MATRIX, THING
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.
