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ForbesNYT Connections Hints Today: Friday, October 24 Clues And Answers (#866)By Kris Holt
I narrowly escaped defeat today with a last minute save as I struggled with the Yellow Group, of all things. Purple isn’t the hardest I’ve seen, but you may end up getting it by default.
How to Play Connections
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles. So, onto the hints and answers:
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers.
DATEVESTLIGHTSHAFTRAYFLEECEALARMLINCOLNGRANTMILKHOSEAWARHUSTLESTOPWATCHACCORDCAPOTE
Here is a hint that gives you one word per group:
🟡 Yellow Group – FLEECE🟢 Green Group – ALARM🔵 Blue Group – ACCORD🟣 Purple Group – CAPOTE
The hints for the Connections groups today are:
🟡 Yellow Group – Don’t get taken for a ride🟢 Green Group – No ticking gears🔵 Blue Group – From one to another🟣 Purple Group – Golden statuesWhat Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
🟡Yellow Group – Swindle🟢Green Group – Digital Watch Features🔵 Blue Group – Confer🟣 Purple Group – Best Actor-Winning BiopicsWhat Are Today’s Connections Answers?
The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:
🟡Yellow Group – Swindle (FLEECE, HOSE, HUSTLE, SHAFT)🟢Green Group – Digital Watch Features (ALARM, DATE, LIGHT, STOPWATCH)🔵 Blue Group – Confer (ACCORD, AWARD, GRANT, VEST)🟣 Purple Group – Best Actor-Winning Biopics (CAPOTE, LINCOLN, MILK, RAY)
Alright, I’m a little upset with Yellow Group here, as I think you could put MILK into this category, as you can MILK people the same way you can FLEECE people, and it would fit in that group. But it was needed elsewhere, and I wasted a bunch of my misses there. All of them, in fact, save the last one.
Green Group has something in it that I definitely do not have on my smartwatch, a light, unless you mean the fact that it lights up at all. I thought this was going to be features of just a normal smartphone, which does have a light, but I guess they wanted it a little more specific than that. But you don’t need to guess the group name, only the words together.
Blue Group was a little tricky too, as it’s hard to put VEST in there, I’d argue, and of course they paired GRANT and LINCOLN so you might think there was a Presidential category, which there was not. Rather that led to purple group.
These Purple Group last names, and one first name, bestowed awards to the following actors:
Philip Seymor Hoffman – (Truman) CapoteDaniel Day Lewis – (Abe) LincolnSean Penn – (Harvey) MilkJamie Foxx – Ray (Charles)
Of those, I think Capote was my favorite. Really miss Hoffman these days, but his son is acting now, which is cool. Watch The Long Walk this year.
How did you do in today’s puzzle?
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