Looking for today’s Connections answers? The September 3 Connections answers for puzzle #450 are a little harder than yesterday’s answers. The Connections Companion rates this puzzle’s difficulty at 3.1 out of 5.
Every day we update this article with Connections clues and tips to help you find all 4 answers from today. And if the clues aren’t enough, you can find all 4 answers below with the category titles and the corresponding words. We also include a reflection on yesterday’s puzzle #449 in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers for Connections #450 follow. Read on only if you want to know today’s Connections answers.
Alternatively, you can visit our NYT Connections game guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
Today’s Connections Answer – Tips for Solving
Unlike our guide to today’s Wordle answer where we recommend the best Wordle seed words as a strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying categories of connections among 16 words. The difficulty level of each category is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping and purple is the most challenging. Once you make 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers are revealed, so hints can be helpful.
If you need hints on how to solve the groupings, you can find the topics of the individual groupings here, sorted by difficulty level:
- 🟨 Yellow: Hands-free
- 🟩 Green: Excessive
- 🟦 Blue: Global Currencies
- 🟪 Purple: ____ Head
These clues should give you at least part of the answer to today’s Connections question. If not, you can read on for bigger clues. If you just want to know the answer, keep scrolling down.
Here is a bigger hint: Exchange your dollars into another country’s currency, and then think about possible redress before wondering if you’re paying too much.
Today’s Connections Answers
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #450?
Drum roll, please…
- 🟨 Strange: Apologize, pardon, save, spare
- 🟩 Assignment: In addition, extra, over, also
- 🟦 Classic collection items: Pound, Real, Won, Yen
- 🟪 Chain ____: arrow, block, front, ankle
Today I found it difficult because I had problems with the supposedly easiest categories (yellow and green), while I completed the blue and purple lines quickly.
I saw the yen (Japan) and pound (UK) currencies almost immediately before finding the real (Brazil) and rounding it to won (South Korea). If you get stuck here and don’t know the currencies, the words won’t fit anywhere else in the grid.
I wasn’t looking for it, but Knuckle(head) came to mind and the rest of that category fit with fore(head) and block(head). I took a hit with over(head) but quickly fixed it with arrow(head).
And then I was stuck. I took a few strikes trying to force a bowling category with Save, Spare and Extra. The first two finally made me tick Excuse and Pardon for the Absolute category.
Green was then filled with Beyond, Extra, Over and Too. Phew. One more strike left.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #448, which had a difficulty rating of 2.8 out of 5 according to the Connections Companion.
Alyse started today’s puzzle again by solving the yellow category first, which meant she was under pressure to figure out the harder categories. Weird is such a… well… weird word, as it really only has one meaning, so it was the first thing that caught her eye. When she started looking for synonyms, Weird, Funny, and Curious almost immediately came to mind.
Although today’s puzzle was rated easier than yesterday’s, she struggled more with it because she kept trying to connect stamp, mail, and the other clues surrounding the post office. When this train of thought hit a dead end, the next category that came to her mind was, surprisingly, the purple category. She was stumped for a while after she got stuck and realized that letter and mail had nothing to do with mail, but after a bit of brainstorming, she started thinking back to those “Don’t break the chain!” emails from the early days of the internet, and that’s when reaction and business came to mind as other words that start with chain.
Next came the blue category with coins, comics, records and stamps, as she had seen enough Pawn Stars in her life to be familiar with the world of collectibles.
Green was memorized this time, but it was easy to figure out what job, position, post and station had in common.
