NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Tuesday, October 8 (Game #485)
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 #485) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- REED
- BLOCK
- ACCIDENTAL
- SPIDER
- BAR
- STAFF
- APPLE
- REMARK
- BAT
- FORBIDDEN
- PUMPKIN
- CORN
- FORBIDDEN
- WITCH
- REST
- TO DENY
NYT Connections Today (Game #485) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: October holiday favorites
- Vegetable: Not allowed
- Blue: Members of an orchestra will recognize them
- Purple: [sweet thing] empty
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 #485) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS
- GREEN: PROHIBITED
- BLUE: FOUND ON SHEET MUSIC
- PURPLE: CANDY ___
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #485) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #485, are…
- YELLOW: HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS BAT, PUMPKIN, SPIDER, WITCH
- GREEN: PROHIBITED PROHIBITED, BLOCKED, DENIAL, PROHIBITED
- BLUE: FOUND ON SHEET MUSIC ACCIDENTAL, NOTE, REST, STAFF
- PURPLE: CANDY ___ APPLE, BAR, CANE, CORN
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
A much easier today than yesterday’s near-impossible Connections. I solved all four without making any mistakes, and I suspect many of you did too.
Yellow, HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS, was particularly simple – with the task of finding BAT, PUMPKIN, SPIDER and WITCH only slightly complicated by the presence of APPLE, which also has some Halloween connotations (apple bobbing, anyone?). APPLE was instead part of the CANDY ___ group, along with BAR, CANE and CORN. This was the purple connection and it was actually the first one I got. That’s always an advantage when it comes to completing this game, because with that there are rarely really difficult groups. That said, I don’t think I would have completed Blue today – I’ve never played a musical instrument before, so FOUND ON SHEET MUSIC may well have been beyond my mental reach. Luckily it didn’t matter today.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, October 7, game #484)
- YELLOW: KNUCKLE HEAD DING-DONG, DODO, Yahoo, YO-YO
- GREEN: AUTO-ONOMATOPOEIA BEEP BEEP, MUSTACHE, SKRRT, VROOM
- BLUE SOUNDS HAR-HAR, HOOT, WHOOP, YUK
- PURPLE: FAMOUS PRIMATES BUBBLES, GEORGE, KING KONG, KOKO
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.
