Good morning! We're going to play Connections, the clever word game from the NYT that challenges you to group answers into various categories. It can be tricky, so read on if you need hints.
What should you do once you're done? Play more word games, of course. I also have articles with daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers, and Quordle hints and answers if you need help with those topics as well.
SPOILER WARNING: Below you'll find information about today's NYT Connections, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Set #462): Words of the Day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- CLOWN
- DWELL
- TURKEY
- SEA
- WONDER
- SAP
- DECREASE
- STAY
- DECLINE
- Silly
- REFLUX
- LIVE
- SIN
- DWELL
- DWARF
- DROP
Today's NYT Connections (Set #462): Clue #1: Group Clues
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Be somewhere
- Green: Reduce in number
- Blue: Idiot
- Purple: Everything associated with a number
Need more clues?
We're now in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…
Today's NYT Connections (Game #462): Clue #2: Group Answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: RESIDENCE
- GREEN: DECREASE
- BLUE: FOOL
- PURPLE: MEMBER OF A SEPTET
Well, the answers are below, so DON'T CONTINUE FOLLOWING THE PAGE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Today's NYT Connections (Set #462): The Answers
The answers to today's Connections game, number 462, are…
- YELLOW: RESIDENCE TO LIVE, TO LIVE, TO STAY, TO INHABIT, TO LIVE
- GREEN: DECREASE DECLINE, FALL, DECREASE, REDUCTION
- BLUE: FOOL CLOWN, DWEEB, SAP, Türkiye
- PURPLE: MEMBER OF A SEPTET DWARF, SEA, SIN, WONDER
- My rating: Easy
- My rating: Perfect
My streak hit 10 today, which isn't particularly impressive, but it does at least indicate that Connections is in the midst of a rare lull. Will that change soon? Almost certainly. Am I complaining? No!
After all, it's not that it didn't make me think. Rather, each of these four groups could be solved with a little thought and no specialized knowledge needed. Yellow, green, and blue were fairly simple synonym groups, violet was the only one that was more difficult, as it was a clever connection of “things of which there are seven”: SINS and WONDERS, etc. I didn't need to solve it, because I already had the other three, but I feel like I would have had a chance, and that's all I ask of my Daily Connections, a chance of success.
How did your day go? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday's NYT Connections Answers (Saturday, September 14, Game #461)
- YELLOW: WINE BOTTLE INFORMATION GRAPE, REGION, HARVEST, WINERY
- GREEN: CONSOLE INPUTS BUTTON, KNOB, SLIDER, SWITCH
- BLUE: PREFIXES PRO, RETRO, SUB, SUPER
- PURPLE: ___ KING HAMBURGER, CALIFORNIA, LEON, GRADUATION PARTY
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
The plus side is that you don't technically need to solve the last one, as you'll be able to answer it by process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a bit of wiggle room.
However, it is a bit more complex than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trick you with tricks. For example, beware of homophones and other wordplay that could disguise the answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
