NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Wednesday, September 11 (Contest #458)
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 #458) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- DINOSAUR
- PEARL
- EGGPLANT
- COIN
- LAVENDER
- AMBER
- CLOG
- PILE
- TASTY TREATS
- AMETHYST
- FORTUNE
- MOSQUITO
- BUNDLE
- PALEONTOLOGIST
- GRIMACE
- CORE
NYT Connections Today (Contest #458) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Do you have one? You are rich
- Vegetables: A little bit of knowledge
- Blue: An adventure 65 million years in the making
- Purple: All one color
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 #458) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY
- GREEN: BITES OF WISDOM
- BLUE: SEEN IN “JURASSIC PARK”
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT ARE PURPLE
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #458) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #458, are…
- 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
- My rating: Simple
- My score: 2 mistakes
My winning run in Connections – that’s six in a row after multiple failures in the past few weeks. Maybe the game has gotten easier; maybe I’ve gotten better; maybe it’s just luck!
Anyway, I didn’t find today’s Connections all that disturbing. The blue JURASSIC PARK group immediately stood out, even 30 years after the original film’s debut. Yellow (LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY) and green (BITS OF WISDOM) were also pretty straightforward, when I thought about them. I wouldn’t have picked purple if it weren’t standard, though – three were obvious, but I don’t know what GRIMACE is referring to, so I never would have picked that. (Apparently it’s a McDonald’s thing – but I’ve never eaten there, so I wouldn’t know…)
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Tuesday, September 10, Contest #457)
- YELLOW: TYPES TYPES, TYPES, STRIPES, TYPES
- GREEN: TRANSFER DELIVER, GIVE, TRADE, PASS ON
- BLUE: RATING SYSTEMS OFF, PERCENTAGE, STARS, THUMBS
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH KINGS CHECKERS, CARD GAME, MONARCHY, NHL
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.
