Good morning! Let’s play Connections, a clever NYT word game that challenges you to group your answers into different categories. This may be hard, 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 #485) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- CANE
- BLOCK
- CASUAL
- SPIDER
- BAR
- STAFF
- APPLE
- NOTE
- BAT
- PROHIBITION
- PUMPKIN
- CORN
- TO PROHIBIT
- WITCH
- REST
- DENIAL
NYT Connections Today (Game #485) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some tips for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Favorite October holidays
- Green: Not allowed
- Blue: The members of the orchestra will recognize them
- Purple: [sweet thing] empty
Need more tips?
We’re now in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know the four topical answers to today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #485) – prompt #2 – group answers
What are the responses to today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS
- GREEN: PROHIBITED
- BLUE: FOUND ON MUSIC SHEET
- PURPLE: SUGAR ___
Sure, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #485) – answers
The answers for today’s Connections game, #485, are…
- YELLOW: HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS Bat, Pumpkin, Spider, Witch
- GREEN: PROHIBITED BANK, BLOCK, REFUSE, PROHIBIT
- BLUE: FOUND ON MUSIC SHEET RANDOM, ATTENTION, REST, STAFF
- PURPLE: SUGAR ___ APPLE, BAR, CANE, CORN
- My rating: Easy
- My result: Perfect
Much easier today than yesterday’s almost impossible Connections. I solved all four without making any mistakes, and I suspect many of you will too.
The yellow one, HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS, was particularly effortless – finding the bat, PUMPKIN, SPIDER, and KNOWLEDGE was only slightly complicated by the presence of the APPLE, which also has some Halloween connotations (bouncing apples, anyone?). Instead, APPLE was part of the CANDY ___ group along with BAR, CANE and CORN. It was a purple combo and it was actually the first one I got. This is always an advantage when it comes to completing this game, as it means that there are rarely really hard groups. That said, I don’t think I’d graduate from Blue today – I’ve never played a musical instrument, so FOUND ON NOTES might as well have remained out of my mind. Fortunately, it didn’t matter today.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Monday, October 7, Game #484)
- YELLOW: KNUCKLEHEAD DING-DONG, DODO, YAHOO, JO-YO
- GREEN: CAR ONOMATOPEIA BEEP BEEP, PURR, SKRRT, VROOM
- BLUE SOUNDS OF LAUGHTER HAR-HAR, hurrah, hurray, hurray
- PURPLE: FAMOUS PRIMATES BUBBLES, GEORGE, KING KONG, KOKO
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 effortless, yellow is slightly more hard, blue is often quite hard, and purple is usually very hard.
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 undiscovered answers.
You can play it for free via NYT Gaming Site on your desktop computer or mobile phone.
