NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Saturday, September 7 (Contest #454)
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 #454) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- TANK
- GLOVE
- DISH
- TEE
- COACH
- ROCKS
- POLO
- CROP
- FILTER
- BALL
- TURN
- MUSTANG
- GODIVA
- TURN AROUND
- PUMP
- DIRECTOR
NYT Connections Today (Contest #454) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Photoshop skills
- Vegetables: Tiger essentials
- Blue: Fish things
- Purple: Horse badges
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 #454) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: WAYS TO TRANSFORM AN IMAGE
- GREEN: THINGS USED IN GOLF
- BLUE: AQUARIUM PURCHASES
- PURPLE: LOGOS WITH HORSES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #454) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #454, are…
- YELLOW: WAYS TO TRANSFORM AN IMAGE CROP, FLIP, ROTATE, SCALE
- GREEN: THINGS USED IN GOLF BALL, DRIVER, GLOVE, T-SHIRT
- BLUE: AQUARIUM PURCHASES FILTER, PUMP, ROCKS, TANK
- PURPLE: LOGOS WITH HORSES COACH, GODIVA, MUSTANG, POLO
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: 3 mistakes
Here’s another super-hard Connections puzzle that’s guaranteed to either get your gray matter working – or frustrate you with its opaque nature.
In all fairness, a few of today’s groups aren’t that bad. I use Photoshop on a daily basis, so the yellow WAYS TO TRANSFORM AN IMAGE connection immediately caught my eye. The green, THINGS USED IN GOLF, gave me more trouble – mainly because I thought some of the words belonged somewhere else, e.g. BALL, FILTER, TANK all seemed related. But I got it eventually – which left blue and purple.
Purple – which is LOGOS WITH HORSES – was ridiculously difficult. I’ve never heard of a company called GODIVA or COACH, although I assume there are, otherwise this group would make even less sense. But I figured it out through a combination of trial and error and guesswork, in that I knew GODIVA, POLO, and MUSTANG all had a horse connection, and lucked out by adding COACH to the mix.
That left blue, BUY AQUARIUM, which was also tricky – but by then I could solve it by default, with one more guess. Phew!
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Friday, September 6, Contest #453)
- YELLOW: AMOUNT AMOUNT, NUMBER, COUNT, TOTAL
- GREEN: INCIDENT AFFAIR, EPISODE, EVENT, MATTER
- BLUE: RECEIVING THINGS IN THE MAIL INVOICE, CARD, CATALOGUE, LETTER
- PURPLE: WHAT “SPRING” REFERS TO BOUNCE, RINSE, GEYSER, SEASON
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.
