NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, September 22 (Contest #469)
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 #469) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- PASTEL
- SWIMMING POOL
- SUNGLASSES
- SCULPTURE
- THIRD
- NEUTRAL
- DRAWING
- NEW
- ALLOY
- OPEN
- NEON
- LOTTERY
- TO RESCUE
- GRAYSCALE
- RAFFLE
NYT Connections Today (Contest #469) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Different tones
- Vegetables: Click here
- Blue: Do you feel lucky?
- Purple: Copper and tin
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 #469) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: COLOR TYPES
- GREEN: FILE MENU OPTIONS
- BLUE: CHANCE TO WIN A PRIZE
- PURPLE: WHAT “BRONZE” MIGHT MEAN
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #469) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #469, are…
- YELLOW: COLOR TYPES GRAYSCALE, NEON, NEUTRAL, PASTEL
- GREEN: FILE MENU OPTIONS NEW, OPEN, PRINT, SAVE
- BLUE: CHANCE TO WIN A PRIZE DRAWING, LOTTERY, POOL, RAFFLE
- PURPLE: WHAT “BRONZE” MIGHT MEAN ALLOY, SCULPTURE, SOLAR, THIRD
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
Those of you playing Connections on a laptop or PC may have had an advantage over people playing on your phones today, because you got a big hint for the green group. That connection is FILE MENU OPTIONS, and the fact that I was on my laptop to play and then write this column meant that they were staring me in the face. Okay, not literally – they were hidden in the menu – but they were certainly fresh in my mind. By that point I had also solved blue, with LOTTERY and RAFFLE clearly belonging together and the other two not too hard to find (I did have a bit of trouble with DRAWING).
Two down, one to go – and inevitably I found yellow instead of purple, although neither was particularly bad today.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Saturday, September 21, Contest #468)
- 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
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.
