Good morning! Let’s play Connections, a clever NYT word game that challenges you to group your answers into different categories. This may be challenging, so read on if you need some guidance.
What should you do once you’re done? Of course, play more word games. I also have daily Wordle tips and answers, Strands tips and answers, and Quordle tips and answers articles if you need support with that too.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s NYT Connections story is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #483) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- SHED
- CREAM
- RETREAT
- ABOUT
- HOUSE
- LOGIN
- HOUSE
- SCRATCH
- KNEAD
- GOAT
- LEAVE
- STRING
- ESCAPE
- PURR
- CONTACT
- WITHDRAW
NYT Connections Today (Game #483) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some tips for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Go away
- Green: Cat things
- Blue: Privacy is often something else
- Purple: Empty [dairy food]
Need more tips?
We’re now in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know the four thematic answers to today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
Today NYT Connections (Game #483) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the responses to today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TURN TAIL
- GREEN: THINGS CATS DO
- BLUE: WEBSITE PAGES
- PURPLE: ___ CHEESE
Sure, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #483) – answers
The answers for today’s Connections game, #483, are…
- YELLOW: TURN YOUR TAIL RUN, WALK AWAY, BACK AWAY, BACK AWAY
- GREEN: THINGS CATS DO Knead, purr, scratch, wipe
- BLUE: WEBSITE PAGES ABOUT US, CONTACT, HOME PAGE, LOGIN
- PURPLE: ___ CHEESE HOUSE, CREAM, GOAT, LINE
- My rating: Easy
- My result: Perfect
I like cats, I like cheese and I work on a website, so I was in a good place to solve today’s Connections, where all three were presented in groups. That said, I was the first to solve the yellow group of TURN TAIL with ESCAPE, GET OUT, BACK AWAY, and BACK OUT, which was perhaps unsurprising given that it was quite straightforward and consisted only of synonyms.
The rest were technically more challenging. Green – THINGS CATS DO – came to mind early on, in connection with PURR and SCRATCH. Kneading made sense too, but I couldn’t find the fourth one. I almost guessed that CREAM or STRING was associated with cats, but it didn’t quite match the other three. And then I finally realized that SHED could also be a verb, and that’s when everything fell into place.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Saturday, October 5, Game 482)
- YELLOW: STEAK CUTS FILLET, HANGER, SKIRT, T-BONE
- GREEN: TYPES OF UNDERWEAR BIKINI, G-strings, hipsters, thongs
- BLUE: ENGAGED IN DENTIST VISIT DRILL, WASHBASIN, TOOTHBRUSH, X-RAY
- PURPLE: BRANDS THAT BECAME GENERIC TERMS CHAPSTICK, JACUZZI, Q-TIP, XEROX
What are NYT calls?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. The task is to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is simple, yellow is slightly more challenging, blue is often quite challenging, and purple is usually very challenging.
The advantage is that you technically don’t have to solve the last one because you will be able to answer it by process of elimination. What’s more, you can make as many as four mistakes, which gives you some slack.
However, it’s a little more complicated than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to throw you into tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that can unrecognized answers.
You can play it for free via NYT Gaming Site on your desktop computer or mobile phone.
