NYT Connections today hints and answers for Thursday, October 3 (game #480)

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Wed, 02 Oct 2024 23:02:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those
too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #480) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are SKI PANT PRUNE JUICE PUNCH POT MILK SMITE SOCK BLOUSE EARBUD WATER STICK SODA FERTILIZE BOOKEND NYT Connections today (game #480) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Drinks Green: Green-fingered tasks Blue: Two's company Purple: Hidden creepy crawlies

Need more clues?

We're firmly in 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 #480) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: BEVERAGES GREEN: CARE FOR A PLANT BLUE: ITEM SOLD IN PAIRS PURPLE: BUGS PLUS STARTING LETTER

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #480) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #480, are YELLOW: BEVERAGES JUICE, MILK, PUNCH, SODA GREEN: CARE FOR A PLANT FERTILIZE, POT, PRUNE, WATER BLUE: ITEM SOLD IN PAIRS BOOKEND, EARBUD, SKI, SOCK PURPLE: BUGS PLUS STARTING LETTER BLOUSE, PANT, SMITE, STICK My rating: Easy My score: Perfect

This is a fairly simple Connections puzzle as they go although it's all relative, of course.

The key to solving it, for me, was getting the purple group first. This is traditionally the hardest of the four Connections, so solving it early takes off some of the pressure. And there's a definite psychological boost to completing it early!

Today's was a clever one BUGS PLUS STARTING LETTER, for instance BLOUSE (LOUSE) and SMITE (MITE). But I tend to find these kind of puzzles easier to solve than some others (for instance the blank ___ type), because they don't require quite so much knowledge of the subject simply the ability to think laterally about language.

With that out of the way I was able to solve the green CARE FOR A PLANT
group, which in turn made it easier to solve BEVERAGES (yellow) and left me with blue by default.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 2 October, game #479) YELLOW: PUT ON THE LINE BET, CHANCE, GAMBLE, RISK GREEN: USE A KITCHEN KNIFE CUBE, DICE, JULIENNE, SLICE BLUE: ROBERT DE NIRO FILMS CASINO, HEAT, JOKER, TAXI DRIVER PURPLE: DISTINCTIVE NUMBER OF ARMS (OR LACK THEREOF) OCTOPUS, SHIVA, SLOT MACHINE, VENUS DE MILO What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green
is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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