NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Sunday, October 6 (Game #483)
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 #483) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- BARN
- CREAM
- RESORT
- ABOUT
- HOUSE
- LOGIN
- AT HOME
- SCRATCH
- KNEAD
- GOAT
- TO LEAVE
- SNARE
- TO FLEE
- MUSTACHES
- CONTACT
- WITHDRAW
NYT Connections Today (Game #483) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Go away
- Vegetable: Feline things
- Blue: Privacy is often a different story
- Purple: Empty [dairy food]
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 #483) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TURN TAIL
- GREEN: THINGS CATS DO
- BLUE: PAGES ON A WEBSITE
- PURPLE: ___ CHEESE
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #483) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #483, are…
- YELLOW: TURN TAIL FLEE, DEPARTURE, RETREAT, RETREAT
- GREEN: THINGS CATS DO KNEES, TRACES, SCRATCHES, LOSS
- BLUE: PAGES ON A WEBSITE ABOUT, CONTACT, HOME, LOGIN
- PURPLE: ___ CHEESE STAY, CREAM, GOAT, string
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
I love cats, I love cheese, and I’m working on a website, so I was in a good place to solve today’s Connections, which feature all three as groups. That said, it was the yellow TURN TAIL group with FLEE, LEAVE, RETREAT and WITHDRAW that I solved first, perhaps unsurprisingly considering it was quite simple and consisted only of synonyms.
The others were technically more difficult. Green – THINGS CATS DO – came to me early on, because of the Purring and SCRATCH. KNEAD also made sense, but I couldn’t find a fourth one. I almost guessed that CREAM or STRING were cat related things, but they didn’t quite fit in with the other three. And then I finally realized that SHED could also be a verb, and in that moment everything fell into place.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, October 5, game #482)
- YELLOW: STEAK CUTTING FILET, PENDANT, SKIRT, T-BONE
- GREEN: TYPES OF UNDERWEAR BIKINI, G STRING, HIPSTER, THONG
- BLUE: INVOLVED IN A DENTAL VISIT DRILL, GUT, TOOTHBRUSH, X-RAY
- PURPLE: BRANDS THAT HAVE BECOME GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS CHAPSTICK, JACUZZI, Q-TIP, XEROX
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.
