NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, October 21 (game #498)

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Good morning! Let's play Connections, nan NYT's clever connection crippled that challenges you to group answers successful various categories. It tin beryllium tough, truthful publication connected if you request clues.

What should you do erstwhile you've finished? Why, play immoderate much connection games of course. I've besides sewage regular Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you request thief for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information astir NYT Connections coming is below, truthful don't publication connected if you don't want to cognize nan answers.

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NYT Connections coming (game #498) - today's words

NYT Connections hints for crippled 498 connected a purple background

Today's NYT Connections words are…

WHIRL
DRAW
NAVY
LIVER
CAR
KIDNEY
HOOK
DRIVE
PINTO
PULL
NEUTRAL
DEAD
LOW
MUNG
GRAB
REVERSE

NYT Connections coming (game #498) - hint #1 - group hints

What are immoderate clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: Full of 'em
Green: Bring towards you
Blue: No manual required
Purple: Blank[thing you aquatics in]

Need much clues?

We're firmly successful spoiler territory now, but publication connected if you want to cognize what nan 4 taxable answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections coming (game #498) - hint #2 - group answers

What are nan answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: KINDS OF BEANS
GREEN: ATTRACT
BLUE: AUTOMATIC GEAR SHIFTER POSITIONS
PURPLE: ___POOL

Right, nan answers are below, truthful DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections coming (game #498) - nan answers

NYT Connections answers for crippled 498 connected a purple background

The answers to today's Connections, crippled #498, are…

YELLOW: KINDS OF BEANS KIDNEY, MUNG, NAVY, PINTO
GREEN: ATTRACT DRAW, GRAB, HOOK, PULL
BLUE: AUTOMATIC GEAR SHIFTER POSITIONS DRIVE, LOW, NEUTRAL, REVERSE
PURPLE: ___POOL CAR, DEAD, LIVER, WHIRL

My rating: Moderate
My score: 1 mistake

I'm not judge whether others will find this rather arsenic difficult arsenic I did, but I made an early correction and was somewhat worried astir my streak – which is admittedly only astatine six, but hey you person to return what you tin successful this game.

The problem for maine was that nan easiest group, KINDS OF BEANS, contained 1 I didn't know, NAVY; successful nan UK, wherever I am, these are alternatively called haricot beans. I spotted that PINTO, KIDNEY and MUNG each intelligibly went together but guessed LIVER arsenic nan 4th (I deliberation I was confused pinch LIMA) and erstwhile that was incorrect didn't really cognize what to do next.

So I moved on, and recovered nan greenish ATTRACT group, past nan actually-fairly-easy bluish AUTOMATIC GEAR SHIFTER POSITIONS group. Revisiting 'beans' pinch a smaller excavation of words I vaguely recalled a mention of NAVY beans successful immoderate movie aliases different truthful played that and sewage it right. That meant I didn't request to lick nan purple __POOL group, which is conscionable arsenic good arsenic I had nary hint astir that one.

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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 20 October, crippled #497)

GREEN: NOISY DISTURBANCE CLATTER, RACKET, ROW, RUCKUS
YELLOW: BIT OF NEWSPAPER WRITING ARTICLE, COLUMN, FEATURE, STORY
BLUE: TABLE TENNIS NEEDS BALL, NET, PADDLE, TABLE
PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS BUTT, FORE, OAR, SEW

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is 1 of respective progressively celebrated connection games made by nan New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of 4 items that stock thing successful common, and each group has a different trouble level: greenish is easy, yellowish a small harder, bluish often rather reliable and purple usually very difficult.

On nan positive side, you don't technically request to lick nan last one, arsenic you'll beryllium capable to reply that 1 by a process of elimination. What's more, you tin dress up to 4 mistakes, which gives you a small spot of breathing room.

It's a small much progressive than thing for illustration Wordle, however, and location are plentifulness of opportunities for nan crippled to travel you up pinch tricks. For instance, watch retired for homophones and different connection games that could disguise nan answers.

It's playable for free via nan NYT Games site connected desktop aliases mobile.

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