NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Tuesday, October 1 (Game #478)
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 #478) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- FAST
- FOAM
- CURRENT
- CONDITION
- FAST
- RINSE
- HEALTH
- SWEAT
- NORMAL
- GOLF
- FORM
- DISINFECTED
- STEW
- FORM
- CASCADE
- TIZZY
NYT Connections Today (Game #478) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: All gone
- Vegetable: In good…
- Blue: H20 actions
- Purple: No scrubber required
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 #478) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CONFUSED CONDITION
- GREEN: FITNESS
- BLUE: FAST MOVING WATER
- PURPLE: DISHWASHER CYCLES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #478) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #478, are…
- YELLOW: CONFUSED CONDITION FOAM, DUST, SWEAT, TIZZY
- GREEN: FITNESS CONDITION, SHAPE, HEALTH, SHAPE
- BLUE: FAST MOVING WATER CASCADE, CURRENT, FAST, WAVE
- PURPLE: DISHWASHER CYCLES NORMAL, FAST, RINSE, DISINFECT
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
It was good to get back on track with a win today, after my failure yesterday. Admittedly, I was helped by this Connections puzzle being on the easier side of things, with four relatively simple groups and not too many diabolical diversions to contend with.
There were a few though, especially in the purple group DISHWASHER CYCLE. I suspected this early on, but wasn’t sure which of the six possible answers constituted the correct quarter; the final solutions were NORMAL, FAST, RINSE and DISINFECT, but I thought LATHER and FAST were also options. And no, you don’t have dishwashers with a LATHER setting, but I didn’t know at the time that that was the connection, just that there was probably a connection to a certain appliance – maybe a washing machine…
I eventually worked it out, checking off some of the easier groups first and solving those by default at the end, as is usually the way things work.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, September 30, game #477)
- YELLOW: COOKING WITH HEAT AND WATER BLANCHING, BOILING, POACHING, STEAM
- GREEN: COMMON PERFUME INGREDIENTS AMBERGRIS, MUSK, ROSE, VANILLA
- BLUE: CHARACTERS WITH DOGS CHARLIE, DOROTHY, SHAGGY, WALLACE
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES IN THE CAPITAL KETO, Wandering, SOPHIA, SOUL
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.
