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. 471) – the words of the day
The words of NYT Connections today are…
- BALLOON
- BOOK
- MODEL
- BANNER
- NOVEL
- AMBASSADOR
- CONFETTI
- STREAMERS
- SECURE
- CREATIVE
- RESERVE
- FRESH
- ORIGINAL
- GARLAND
- Influencers
- CHARTER
NYT Connections Today (Game #471) – Clue #1 – Group Clues
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Innovative
- Green: Claim something in advance
- Blue: Set them up and celebrate
- Purple: Instagrammers?
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 #471) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: INSPIRED
- GREEN: PRE-PROCUREMENT
- BLUE: A LITTLE PARTY DECORATION
- LILA: ONLINE PERSONALITY
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. 471) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections Game No. 471 are…
- YELLOW: INSPIRED CREATIVE, FRESH, NEW, ORIGINAL
- GREEN: PRE-PROCUREMENT BOOK, CHARTER, RESERVE, SECURE
- BLUE: A LITTLE PARTY DECORATION Balloon, banner, confetti, garland
- LILA: ONLINE PERSONALITY AMBASSADOR, INFLUENCER, MODEL, STREAMER
- My rating: Simply
- My result: 1 error
Although I made a mistake today, I don’t blame myself for it – I just couldn’t have known which answer was the right one. This is a common theme on Connections: including answers that serve as red herrings because they may appear in multiple categories. Today I put together three-quarters of the ONLINE PERSONALITY group, which ended up being the purple one, in the form of INFLUENCER, MODEL, and STREAMER. I added CREATIVE – because that’s a very different type of online personality – but the last one turned out to be the slightly more sketchy AMBASSADOR. CREATIVE went into the yellow INSPIRED group instead, which made sense.
None of this bothered me too much because this was another relatively easy Connections game and I ticked off the others without any major issues.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Monday, September 23, Game #470)
- 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
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.