Subj : NYT Connections today  hints and answers for Thursday, October 17
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Date : Thu Oct 17 2024 00:15:05

NYT Connections today  hints and answers for Thursday, October 17 (game #494)

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Wed, 16 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 
#494) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) 

Today's NYT Connections words are PARK CAR HARVARD YARD ADDRESS GREEN JAW 
LEMON NATURAL CRIMINAL FIELD SWINGER HANDLE GOODFELLA ANSWER LAWN NYT 
Connections today (game #494) - hint #1 - group hints 

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Bit of 
vegetation Green: I'll take this Blue: Shall we watch Megalopoli tonight? 
Purple: blank [the process by which justice is administered] 

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 #494) - hint #2 - group answers 

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: GRASSY AREA 
GREEN: DEAL WITH BLUE: MOVIES WITH S REMOVED PURPLE: ___ LAW 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT 
TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #494) - the answers (Image credit: 
New York Times) 

The answers to today's Connections, game #494, are YELLOW: GRASSY AREA GREEN, 
LAWN, PARK, YARD GREEN: DEAL WITH ADDRESS, ANSWER, FIELD, HANDLE BLUE: MOVIES 
WITH S REMOVED CAR, GOODFELLA, JAW, SWINGER PURPLE: ___ LAW CRIMINAL, 
HARVARD, LEMON, NATURAL My rating: Moderate My score: 2 mistakes 

My plan to solve the hardest Connections groups first went completely off the 
rails today  and I'm blaming some classic NYT misdirection. I doubt I'll be 
the only person who would have thought to combine the wrong four of GREEN, 
LAWN, PARK, YARD and FIELD  but I did so twice before realizing that the last 
of those should instead be with ADDRESS, ANSWER and HANDLE to form the green 
DEAL WITH group. With that out of the way I was able to solve yellow, GRASSY 
AREA, which meant I had two guesses left and two to solve. 

I focused on GOODFELLA, because there's only really one possible connection 
there  namely that if you add the letter S you get a film title. Doing the 
same with CAR, JAW and SWINGER gave me MOVIES WITH S REMOVED, meaning I 
didn't need to solve the purple group (and probably wouldn't have done if I 
had needed to). 

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT 
Connections answers (Wednesday, 16 October, game #493) YELLOW: AT SOME FUTURE 
POINT EVENTUALLY, LATER, NEXT, SOON GREEN: PARTS OF A TOURNAMENT SETUP 
BRACKET, BYE, ROUND, SEED BLUE: BIT OF BREAKFAST CEREAL CHEERIO, FLAKE, 
PEBBLE, PUFF PURPLE: WHAT THE OUTSTRETCHED INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS CAN 
REPRESENT PEACE, SCISSORS, TWO, VICTORY 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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