NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Thursday, October 10 (Game #487)
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 #487) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- HIP
- TEA
- BIG
- BAD
- EYE
- FLY
- SEWING
- SAW
- SICK
- FAR
- ELEVEN
- LEG
- HER
- RAD
- ARM
- DO
NYT Connections Today (Game #487) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Ear could be another
- Vegetable: Dull words
- Blue: Movies
- Purple: They all appear in a popular musical song
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 #487) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: BODY PARTS
- GREEN: COOL, IN 80’s jargon
- BLUE: MOVIES
- PURPLE: WORDS IN “DO-RE-MI”
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #487) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #487, are…
- YELLOW: BODY PARTS ARM, EYE, HIP, LEG
- GREEN: COOL, IN 80’s jargon BAD, FLY, SICK, RAD
- BLUE: MOVIES BIG, ELEVEN, HAIR, SAW
- PURPLE: WORDS IN “DO-RE-MI” DO, FAR, SEW, TEA
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
As a child of the ’80s, I was thrilled to see COOL, IN ’80S SLANG released as a group today – although I’ll be honest and admit that I was never cool enough to say words like BAD, FLY, ILL or RAD myself say very often. But I’ve seen enough ’80s movies that they’re still stuck in my mind, so solving this wasn’t too difficult.
In fact, none of today’s four groups were particularly challenging. However, that didn’t seem to be the case when I loaded the game: it was one of those days where all the words are very short. In fact, all sixteen were three-letter words, and while that in itself doesn’t make the game difficult, there was a strong possibility that some could be prefixes or suffixes, and that could make things more difficult.
However, that was not the case. FILM was another theme (with ELF, SAW, HER and BIG as answers), while the yellow BODY PARTS group was one of the easiest we’ve ever had in Connections. It was all much easier than I expected, thankfully.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, October 9, game #486)
- YELLOW: BRUISING BUBBLES, BUBBLES, FOAM, FOAM
- GREEN: BURGEON FLOWERING, DEVELOPMENT, RIPE, PROGRESS
- BLUE: MUSIC PUBLICATIONS BILLBOARD, MOJO, PITCHFORK, SPIN
- PURPLE: END WITH CABLEWARE HOB, BUTTER CUP, JACK KNIFE, WITH SPOON
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.
