NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Friday, October 11 (game #488)
By Marc McLaren,
6 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.
It's always nice to finish the week with a simple Connections game, so I greatly enjoyed today's instalment. It wasn't so easy that I didn't have to use my brain at all – it's never that straightforward – but it wasn't one where any of the individual groups were particularly complex, and there weren't too many red herrings.
There were some of course; I nearly put one together with SAUCE, DIP, RELISH and GRAVY, which might have made some kind of food-based group, albeit not a particularly consistent one. But that aside they were all fairly obvious, and all were essentially synonyms, with no complicated hidden connections to worry about.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 10 October, game #487)
YELLOW: BODY PARTS ARM, EYE, HIP, LEG
GREEN: COOL, IN ’80S SLANG BAD, FLY, ILL, RAD
BLUE: MOVIES BIG, ELF, HER, SAW
PURPLE: WORDS IN “DO-RE-MI” DOE, FAR, SEW, TEA
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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