NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Thursday, September 12 (Contest #459)
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 #459) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- INTEREST
- TO RESCUE
- PEPSI
- MOCHI
- CURRY
- FETAS
- BIRD
- BIOTA
- LIKE
- MAGIC
- ADVANTAGE
- COW
- FAVORITE
- INTEREST
- BOOKMARK
- ADVANTAGE
NYT Connections Today (Contest #459) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Stay on the internet
- Vegetables: For your gain
- Blue: Hope dreams
- Purple: Ends with letters from another alphabet
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 #459) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MARK ONLINE FOR LATER
- GREEN: ON BEHALF OF
- BLUE: NBA LEGENDS, FAMILIAR
- PURPLE: ENDING WITH GREEK LETTERS
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #459) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #459, are…
- YELLOW: MARK ONLINE FOR LATER BOOKMARK, FAVORITE, LIKE, SAVE
- GREEN: ON BEHALF OF BENEFIT, BENEFIT, IMPORTANCE, IMPORTANCE
- BLUE: NBA LEGENDS, FAMILIAR BIRD, CURRY, KOBE, MAGIC
- PURPLE: ENDING WITH GREEK LETTERS BIOTA, FETA, MOCHI, PEPSI
- My rating: Simple
- My score: 1 error
This is a fairly simple Connections puzzle: there are three easy puzzles. That means the last (purple) group was a standard solvable. That’s great, because that was super hard.
Blue almost seemed too easy – KOBE couldn’t help but refer to either the basketball player or the Japanese city, and with CURRY, BIRD and MAGIC also on the board, it was clear it was the former rather than the latter. Or at least it was to me. If you know nothing at all about the NBA, you might have struggled with that too.
As for purple… well, the ENDING WITH GREEK LETTERS aspect was a clever one, but bordering on too difficult, I’d say. I’m glad I didn’t have to work that one out!
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Wednesday, September 11, Contest #458)
- YELLOW: LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY BUNDLE, FORTUNE, COIN, STACK
- GREEN: BITES OF WISDOM CORE, NUGGET, PEARL, WEEK
- BLUE: SEEN IN “JURASSIC PARK” AMBER, DINOSAUR, MOSQUITO, PALEONTOLOGIST
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT ARE PURPLE AMETHYST, EGGPLANT, GRIMACE, LAVENDER
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.
