Looking for today’s Connections answers? The September 13 Connections answers for puzzle #460 have become more difficult compared to yesterday’s answers. The Connections Companion rates the difficulty of this puzzle at 3.7 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 #459 in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers for Connections #460 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: Vitality
- 🟩 Green: Palindromes with “E”
- 🟦 Blue: Featured in “Jack and the Beanstalk”
- 🟪 Purple: Car models
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: Remember the story of Jack and his journey up the vine. Then think about car names before looking at palindromes and finishing with some life.
Today’s Connections Answers
So what are today’s Connections answers for game #460?
Drum roll, please…
- 🟨 Vitality: Energy, juice, life, momentum
- 🟩 Palindromes with “E”: level, pep, reference, principle
- 🟦 Featured in “Jack and the Beanstalk”: Bean, Cow, Giant, Jack
- 🟪 Car models: Beetle, Civic, Focus, Volt
It is always a surprise when you get the more difficult categories early on, as they seem more obvious compared to the supposedly “easier” categories.
I started with the blue category today after seeing Beans and Cow, which led me to Jack and then Giant to find bits of the story from Jack and the Beanstalk. I think this could easily be a yellow or green category.
I was trying to match the yellow category with Volt when I saw Civic. From there, it clicked and Beetle immediately caught my eye. I forgot about the Ford Focus, but was able to put it in the purple category.
The yellow category was so full of traps that I was actually surprised it was considered the easiest. Believe me, if I hadn’t already gotten rid of Volt, I would have taken strikes to get it in shape with energy, juice, life and momentum. As it is, I took strikes to try and get Pep going.
I was so busy putting together the yellow group that I didn’t even notice the green category. The yellow was so obvious that it was frustrating when I got a strike for the wrong words.
The palindrome category is cool with Level, Pep, Refer and Tenet.
The difficulty of this level actually comes from how tricky the yellow category is from the start, since there are six possible words to put the group together. Should the yellow category be the trickiest if it’s also the easiest? I don’t mind, but it’s weird for me to eliminate the supposedly “harder” groupings early on because the “easy” ones don’t fit together.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #459, which had a difficulty level of 3.2 out of 5 according to the Connections Companion.
While the 4 was a piece of cake yesterday, the 3.2 was a real challenge today, but this is definitely my fault.
I took a confident approach and combined sake, kobe, mochi and curry for a category of Japanese food. A hit.
I should know better by now and re-examine the answers in my first category to see if they fit better elsewhere. My problem is that I always read sake as a Japanese alcoholic drink and made notes like “Pete’s sake.” This is on me.
After Strike One, we saw Bird and Magic almost immediately, so it was a no-brainer to pair these NBA legends with Kobe (boo) and Curry.
Then we went on to the yellow category with bookmarks, favorites, likes and saves.
This is where I started getting strikes for sticking with sake as a drink. I had benefits, utility, and interest. After getting a few strikes and having one left, I finally gave in with sake and put it in the green category here. I’m not sure if the benefit works with this category, but who am I to say anything about that at this point?
I may have mentioned before that my least favorite category of the purple categories is the one where you have to remove a letter to see it. Today’s hidden Greeks didn’t exactly endear this category to me, it remains at the bottom of my personal rankings.
Anyway, this one was (b)iota, (f)eta, mo(chi) and pe(psi).