Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that requires you to sort answers into different categories. This can be tricky, so read on if you need clues.
What should you do when you’re done? Play some word games, of course. I also have daily articles with tips and answers for Wordle, Strands and Quordle if you need help with those too.
SPOILER ALERT: Information about today’s NYT Connections is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (Game No. 450) – the words of the day
The words of NYT Connections today are…
- TO
- REAL
- FOREGROUND
- SPARE PART
- WON
- ARROW
- EXTRA
- POUND
- ANKLE
- EXCUSE
- ABOVE
- BLOCK
- SAVE
- OVER AND BEYOND
- PARDON
- YEN
NYT Connections Today (Game #450) – Clue #1 – Group Clues
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Pardon
- Green: More
- Blue: Money, money, money
- Purple: bare (word for a body part)
Need more advice?
Now we’re moving into the spoiler zone, but read on if you want to know the four topic answers for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #450) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: GRADUATE
- GREEN: EXCESSIVE
- BLUE: GLOBAL CURRENCIES
- PURPLE: ___HEAD
That’s right, the answers are below, SO DON’T SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (Game No. 450) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #450 are…
- YELLOW: GRADUATE SORRY, FORGIVENESS, SAVE, SPARE
- GREEN: EXCESSIVE ABOUT, EXTRA, ABOUT, ALSO
- BLUE: GLOBAL CURRENCIES POUND, REAL, WON, YEN
- PURPLE: ___HEAD ARROW, BLOCK, FRONT, ANKLE
- My rating: Simply
- My result: Perfect
I almost went off the rails here when I noticed that WON, TOO and FORE are all homophones for numbers, and I wondered if any of the others could fit into that pattern. And then I thought maybe there was a “ball” connection – as in KNUCKLE ball, SPARE ball, EXTRA ball… but for once I didn’t play the first thing I spotted, I kept looking until I found a group that just had to be right. That was the blue group GLOBAL CURRENCIES with POUND, REAL, WON and YEN, and after that came the most difficult purple group, a classic empty (something) connection, which this time was “words that come before head”. Once those two were complete, the others were easy to spot.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Monday, September 2, Game #449)
- YELLOW: STRANGE CURIOUS, FUNNY, UNUSUAL, STRANGE
- GREEN: TASK POSITION, JOB, STATION
- BLUE: CLASSIC COLLECTION ITEMS COIN, COMIC, RECORD, STAMP
- PURPLE: CHAIN ___ LETTER, POST, REACTION, SHOP
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games from the New York Times. You have to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a bit harder, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
The upside is that you don’t technically have to solve the final puzzle, as you can solve it by process of elimination. Plus, you’re allowed to make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little wiggle room.
It is a bit more complicated than Wordle, however, and has many ways to trick you. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that could obscure the answers.
It can be played for free on desktop or mobile via the NYT Games site.
