NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Friday, September 6 (game #453)
By Marc McLaren,
2024-09-05
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.
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 #453) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
CATALOG
EPISODE
LETTER
COIL
COUNT
SEASON
MATTER
NUMBER
BOUNCE
BILL
GEYSER
AFFAIR
TOTAL
EVENT
CARD
AMOUNT
NYT Connections today (game #453) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
Yellow: Tally
Green: Happening
Blue: They're delivered!
Purple: Seasonal word?
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 #453) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: QUANTITY
GREEN: INCIDENT
BLUE: THINGS RECEIVED IN THE MAIL
PURPLE: WHAT “SPRING” MIGHT REFER TO
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #453) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #453, are…
YELLOW: QUANTITY AMOUNT, COUNT, NUMBER, TOTAL
GREEN: INCIDENT AFFAIR, EPISODE, EVENT, MATTER
BLUE: THINGS RECEIVED IN THE MAIL BILL, CARD, CATALOG, LETTER
PURPLE: WHAT “SPRING” MIGHT REFER TO BOUNCE, COIL, GEYSER, SEASON
My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect
I had a big rant about Connections yesterday, and how boring it gets losing every day due to the seemingly random difficulty curve. Well, I won't rant today – because I did manage to solve it. And not only that, but I solved it with no mistakes.
In truth, it is an undeniably easy installment of the game. Purple is the most difficult of the groups, as is usually the case, but I didn't need to worry about that because the other three were all straightforward. In particular, the blue group – which is theoretically the third hardest – was less complicated than they often are. That answer was THINGS RECEIVED IN THE MAIL, featuring BILL, CARD, CATALOG and LETTER, all of which fairly obviously go together.
I suspect we'll be back into impossibly difficult territory tomorrow, but until then I'll enjoy a rare victory.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 5 September, game #452)
YELLOW: HAIR SALON OFFERINGS BLOWOUT, COLOR, CUT, TRIM
GREEN: CRITICIZE BASH, BLAST, PAN, SLAM
BLUE: OBTAIN BAG, LAND, SCORE, SNAG
PURPLE: MEASURED IN FOOTBALL STATS ATTEMPT, RECEPTION, SACK, YARD
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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