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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, September 2 (game #449)
By Marc McLaren,
11 hours ago
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.
Hurrah! You can not believe the relief I felt on solving today's Connections. I'm sure not everyone reading this column does so every day, so you won't necessarily be aware (or care), but before today I'd failed four Connections in a row, and eight out of the previous 15 games. It was becoming a disaster. But this one is not so bad, and I'm back on track.
As is often the case, the key was in solving purple early on. This is usually the most difficult of the four groups, and often involves a 'blank' answer as it did here. There was a fair bit of misdirection in place, with POST and STAMP among the answers with LETTER and MAIL, but ruling out POST as part of the 'assignment' group (green) pulled me away from that angle, and pointed me towards the CHAIN __ connection. With purple solved, and with green and yellow not too tricky, I didn't need to worry about blue at all.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 1 September, game #448)
YELLOW: COOK IN A PAN BROWN, CHAR, GRILL, SEAR
GREEN: PARTS OF THE EAR ANVIL, CANAL, DRUM, HAMMER
BLUE: SHADES OF BLACK CHARCOAL, JET, RAVEN, SABLE
PURPLE: WHERE YOU MIGHT FIND “A DRIVER” GOLF BAG, LIMOUSINE, MOVIE SET, TOOLBOX
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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