NYT Connections today hints and answers for Wednesday, October 23 (game #500)

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Tue, 22 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 #500) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are JEANS JACKET RAIN HAZE GOBLIN JAY BERET MOON PAGES HEART THUMB PROSE SALAD WHALE JOURNALISM NYT Connections today (game #500) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: [color] blank Green: [color] blank Blue: [color] blank Purple: [color] 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 #500) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: YELLOW ___ GREEN: GREEN ___ BLUE: BLUE ___ PURPLE: PURPLE ___

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #500) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #500, are YELLOW: YELLOW ___ CAB, JACKET, JOURNALISM, PAGES GREEN: GREEN ___ BERET, GOBLIN, SALAD, THUMB BLUE: BLUE ___ JAY, JEANS, MOON, WHALE PURPLE: PURPLE ___ HAZE, HEART, PROSE, RAIN My rating: Easy My score: Perfect

Happy birthday, NYT Connections! Yes, here we are at game #500, 18 months on from the first time we saw that grid of 16 words that needed rearranging into four groups. The NYT has duly celebrated with a game that neatly celebrates itself, in that each of the answers is a reference to its place on the board.

However, while today's Connections is good fun, I do wonder about the wisdom of making all four groups their specific color with a blank for instance PURPLE RAIN, PURPLE HEART, PURPLE PROSE, PURPLE HAZE for, yes, purple. One group like that, great. But four well it just made it all a bit too easy, right?

It's not like most of these blanks are hard to fill in, either the only I didn't know was [yellow] JOURNALISM, but otherwise they were all really obvious, even the purple ones. I'd solved the whole thing within about two minutes and I bet you did too.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 22 October, game #499) YELLOW: BRAND-NAME DESIGNER, HAUTE, HIGH-END, LUXURY GREEN: DEVISE CONCOCT, ENGINEER, HATCH, MASTERMIND BLUE: NASA SPACECRAFT GALILEO, PIONEER, VIKING, VOYAGER PURPLE: GAMES WHERE YOU SAY THE GAMES NAME BINGO, MARCO POLO, TAG, UNO 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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