NYT Connections today hints and answers for Sunday, October 20 (game #497)

Date:
Sat, 19 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 #497) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are PADDLE SEW ROW STORY OAR FORE COLUMN RACKET NET BUTT FEATURE BALL CLATTER TABLE RUCKUS ARTICLE NYT Connections today
(game #497) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Press pieces Green: What's that sound? Blue: Ping pong Purple: Sounds like a connecting term

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 #497) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: BIT OF NEWSPAPER WRITING GREEN: NOISY DISTURBANCE BLUE: TABLE TENNIS NEEDS PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #497) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #497, are GREEN: NOISY DISTURBANCE CLATTER, RACKET, ROW, RUCKUS YELLOW: BIT OF NEWSPAPER WRITING ARTICLE,
COLUMN, FEATURE, STORY BLUE: TABLE TENNIS NEEDS BALL, NET, PADDLE, TABLE PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS BUTT, FORE, OAR, SEW My rating: Moderate My score: Perfect

It is perfectly possible to solve the most difficult Connections group, the purple one, without knowing why you're solving it and I know because it happened to me today.

I'd already got yellow and green, BIT OF NEWSPAPER WRITING and NOISY DISTURBANCE respectively, but was stumped as far as the last two went. I should really have got blue, TABLE TENNIS NEEDS, but at this stage at least I hadn't spotted the connection. However, I had noticed that BUTT, FORE, OAR
and SEW were all homophones. Solving it early in the morning, before I was fully awake, I completely failed to spot that they were all HOMOPHONES OF COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS but I had a suspicion that they might go together simply because they all sounded like another word, so played it and got it right. Zero kudos to me, but a win all the same.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 19 October, game #496) YELLOW: BRING ABOUT GENERATE, INSPIRE, PROMPT, PROVOKE GREEN: THINGS THAT ARE OFTEN SCENTED CANDLE, INCENSE, LOTION, SOAP BLUE: THINGS THAT MIGHT STING INSULT,
JELLYFISH, NETTLE, WASP PURPLE: VIDEO GAME FRANCHISES CIVILIZATION, HALO, MADDEN, METROID 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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