NYT Connections today hints and answers for Tuesday, October 8 (game #485)

Date:
Mon, 07 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 #485) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are CANE BLOCK ACCIDENTAL SPIDER BAR STAFF
APPLE NOTE BAT BAN PUMPKIN CORN FORBID WITCH REST DENY NYT Connections today (game #485) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: October holiday favorites Green: Not allowed Blue: Members of an orchestra will recognize them Purple: [sweet thing] blank

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 #485) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS GREEN: PROHIBIT BLUE: FOUND ON SHEET MUSIC PURPLE: CANDY ___

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #485) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #485, are YELLOW: HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS BAT, PUMPKIN, SPIDER, WITCH GREEN: PROHIBIT BAN, BLOCK, DENY, FORBID BLUE: FOUND ON SHEET MUSIC ACCIDENTAL, NOTE, REST, STAFF PURPLE: CANDY ___ APPLE, BAR, CANE, CORN My rating: Easy My score: Perfect

A much easier one today than yesterday's near-impossible Connections. I
solved all four without making any mistakes, and I suspect many of you will have done too.

Yellow, HALLOWEEN SYMBOLS, was particularly easy with the task of finding BAT, PUMPKIN, SPIDER and WITCH only mildly complicated by the presence of APPLE, which also has some Halloween connotations (apple bobbing, anyone?). APPLE was instead part of the CANDY ___ group, together 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 out of the way there's rarely any truly difficult groups. That said, I don't think I'd have completed blue today I've never played a musical instrument, so FOUND ON SHEET MUSIC might well have remained out of
my mental reach. Fortunately, it didn't matter today.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, 7 October, game #484) YELLOW: KNUCKLEHEAD DING-DONG, DODO, YAHOO, YO-YO GREEN: CAR ONOMATOPOEIA BEEP BEEP, PURR, SKRRT, VROOM BLUE SOUNDS OF LAUGHTER HAR-HAR, HOOT, WHOOP, YUK PURPLE: FAMOUS PRIMATES BUBBLES, GEORGE, KING KONG, KOKO 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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