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. 470) – the words of the day
The words of NYT Connections today are…
- CHIP
- BED
- ROUGH
- PATCH
- ROCKY
- ENGRAVING
- PARALLEL
- UNEQUAL
- ROBUST
- SOUTH
- AMUSEMENT
- ACTION
- National
- PACKAGE
- SCRATCHY
- BUMPY
NYT Connections Today (Game #470) – Clue #1 – Group Clues
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Land that is not flat
- Green: Land that can be used for gardening
- Blue: Another could be Tom
- Purple: Empty (open green space)
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 #470) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: NOT SMOOTH, LIKE TERRAIN
- GREEN: A PIECE OF LAND TO CULTIVATE
- BLUE: MEMBER OF A CARTOON DUO
- PURPLE: ___ PARK
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. 470) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections Game No. 470 are…
- YELLOW: NOT SMOOTH, LIKE TERRAIN Bumpy, rough, rugged, uneven
- GREEN: A PIECE OF LAND TO CULTIVATE BED, PLOT, SPOT, LAND
- BLUE: MEMBER OF A CARTOON DUO CHIP, ROCKY, SCRATCHY, STICH
- PURPLE: ___ PARK ENTERTAINMENT, NATIONAL, PARALLEL, SOUTH
- My rating: Simply
- My result: Perfect
This may be the easiest Connections puzzle I’ve done in weeks – to the extent that I solved the blue and purple groups first, and it took me about two minutes.
I got blue first, with the word SCRATCHY immediately catching my eye as I love the Simpsons (from the classic era, of course; we’re talking seasons 3 through 9, nothing more). Once I noticed SCRATCH and ROCKY were there too, that connection became clear, and similarly AMUSEMENT and NATIONAL immediately led me to the normally difficult purple group, ___PARK. Yellow and green were a little harder in my experience, but only slightly; this wasn’t a connections game to worry about.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Sunday, September 22, Game #469)
- YELLOW: COLOUR TYPES Grayscale, Neon, Neutral, Pastel
- GREEN: FILE MENU OPTIONS NEW, OPEN, PRINT, SAVE
- BLUE: CHANCE TO WIN drawing, lottery, pool, tombola
- PURPLE: WHAT “BRONZE” COULD MEAN ALLOY, SCULPTURE, SUNTAN, THIRD
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.