NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Sunday, September 29 (Game #476)
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 #476) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- PLAY
- JUSTICE
- TO THROW
- ENERGY
- HONOR
- PASSAGE
- КЕЕР
- SHAME
- THROW AWAY
- SHEET
- STANDS
- TO FULFILL
- BLANKET
- WORK
- MAINTAINED
- TO DRAW
NYT Connections Today (Game #476) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Do what you say
- Vegetable: Covers
- Blue: Snap?
- Purple: They run the country
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 #476) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DELIVER IT, AS A PROMISE
- GREEN: BEDDING
- BLUE: ACTIONS IN CARD GAMES
- PURPLE: CABINET DEPARTMENTS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #476) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #476, are…
- YELLOW: DELIVER IT, AS A PROMISE FULFILL, HONOR, KEEP, MAINTAIN
- GREEN: BEDDING BLANKET, sham, sheet, throw
- BLUE: ACTIONS IN CARD GAMES GIVE AWAY, DRAW, PASS, PLAY
- PURPLE: CABINET DEPARTMENTS ENERGY, JUSTICE, LABOR, STATE
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 2 mistakes
Oh NYT, you crafty things. I gambled twice today on the blue group, ACTIONS IN CANDLE GAMES, due to a classic deception. The final answers were DISCARD, DRAW, PASS and PLAY, but instead I had STAY there as one of the solutions, which makes sense, but was clearly incorrect.
With two more guesses I was a little worried so I moved on to other categories and got the yellow MAKE GOOD ON, AS A PROMISE group instead, which was pretty easy once I focused. Then I got the supposedly hardest one, the purple group, after I realized that ENERGY, JUSTICE, LABOR and STATE were all Cabinet departments. That made blue easier, and I solved green by default.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, September 28, game #475)
- 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
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 a little harder, blue is often quite tough, and purple is usually very difficult.
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.
