NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Thursday, September 26 (Contest #473)
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 #473) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- SWELL
- FRIILLE
- BIKINI
- WAS
- CROPPING
- CHEESE
- NEAT
- BORDER
- TO GROW
- DRY
- BEAN
- VIRGIN
- THEORY
- DIRECT
- ZOOM
- CONFIRMATION
NYT Connections Today (Contest #473) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Beautiful side of something
- Vegetables: More and more
- Blue: How did you like that?
- Purple: [like a thick thread] empty
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 #473) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DECORATIVE BORDER
- GREEN: INCREASE, IN A WAY
- BLUE: SPECIFICATIONS FOR A BARTENDER
- PURPLE: CORD ___
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #473) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #473, are…
- YELLOW: DECORATIVE BORDER EDGE, EDGE, FRINGE, COVERING
- GREEN: INCREASE, IN A WAY GROW, BUILD, Swell, WASH
- BLUE: SPECIFICATIONS FOR A BARTENDER DRY, NEAT, STRAIGHT, VIRGIN
- PURPLE: CORD ___ BEAN, BIKINI, CHEESE, THEORY
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
Give me a group with CHEESE and I guarantee I’ll solve it. It doesn’t matter what the connection is – if it involves cheese, I’m up for the challenge. And so it went today with STRING ___, the hardest purple group, which I got on my very first guess, when I saw that CHEESE, THEORY, BEAN, and BIKINI could all go after STRING.
I marked this Connections puzzle as moderate instead of easy because even though I didn’t make any mistakes, the other three groups still required quite a bit of thinking. Perhaps I played a little more conservatively than I sometimes am, but I stared and stared and stared at the board for what seemed like an hour (but was probably about five minutes) before I spotted the yellow DECORATIVE EDGE group, and then a bit longer before I got to SPECIFICATIONS FOR A BARTENDER.
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Yesterday’s Answers to NYT Connections (Wednesday, September 25, Contest #472)
- YELLOW: TRIO OF SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS HATTRICK, THREEPEAT, TRIFECTA, TRIPLE CROWN
- GREEN: NEEDS FOR PAINTING A ROOM DROP CLOTH, PAINT, ROLL, TAPE
- BLUE: FOOD NAMED AFTER CITIES BROIL, CHEESESTEAK, BRUSSELS SPROUTS, WINGS
- PURPLE: ___ DERBY DEMOLITION, HOME RUN, KENTUCKY, SOAP BOX
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.
