NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, September 15 (Contest #462)
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 #462) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- CLOWN
- EXPLAIN
- TURKEY
- SEA
- MIRACLE
- JUICE
- TO DECREASE
- STAY
- REJECT
- DWEEB
- EB
- LIVE
- SHAME
- INHABIT
- DWARF
- DROP
NYT Connections Today (Contest #462) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Somewhere are
- Vegetables: Reduce in number
- Blue: Idiot
- Purple: All linked to one number
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 #462) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: RESIDENCES
- GREEN: DECREASE
- BLUE: DOOFUS
- PURPLE: MEMBER OF A SEPTET
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #462) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #462, are…
- YELLOW: RESIDENCES LIVING, RESIDENCE, LIFE, STAY
- GREEN: DECREASE DECREASE, REDUCTION, DECREASE, RETURN
- BLUE: DOOFUS CLOWN, NERD, SAP, TURKEY
- PURPLE: MEMBER OF A SEPTET DWARF, SEA, SIN, MIRACLE
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
My streak hit 10 today, which isn’t exactly impressive, but it does indicate that Connections is in a rare quiet period. Will that change anytime soon? Almost certainly. Am I complaining? No!
It’s not that it didn’t still get me thinking. On the contrary, each of these four groups was solvable with a bit of thought and without the need for specialist knowledge. Yellow, green and blue were all fairly straightforward synonym-style groups, purple was the only one that was harder, a clever connection of ‘things of which there are seven’ – SINS and MIRACLES etc. I didn’t need to solve it, as I had the other three by then, but I feel like I had a chance – and that’s all I ask of my daily Connections, a chance of success.
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Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Saturday, September 14, Contest #461)
- 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
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.
