NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Wednesday, October 23 (game #500)

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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 #500) - today's words

NYT Connections hints for crippled 500 connected a purple background

Today's NYT Connections words are…

JEANS
JACKET
RAIN
HAZE
GOBLIN
JAY
BERET
САВ
MOON
PAGES
HEART
THUMB
PROSE
SALAD
WHALE
JOURNALISM

NYT Connections coming (game #500) - hint #1 - group hints

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

Yellow: [color] blank
Green: [color] blank
Blue: [color] blank
Purple: [color] blank

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 #500) - hint #2 - group answers

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

YELLOW: YELLOW ___
GREEN: GREEN ___
BLUE: BLUE ___
PURPLE: PURPLE ___

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

NYT Connections coming (game #500) - nan answers

NYT Connections answers for crippled 500 connected a purple background

The answers to today's Connections, crippled #500, are…

YELLOW: YELLOW ___ CAB, JACKET, JOURNALISM, PAGES
GREEN: GREEN ___ BERET, GOBLIN, SALAD, THUMB
BLUE: BLUE ___ JAY, JEANS, MOON, WHALE
PURPLE: PURPLE ___ HAZE, HEART, PROSE, RAIN

My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect

Happy birthday, NYT Connections! Yes, present we are astatine crippled #500, 18 months connected from nan first clip we saw that grid of 16 words that needed rearranging into 4 groups. The NYT has duly celebrated pinch a crippled that neatly celebrates itself, successful that each of nan answers is simply a reference to its spot connected nan board.

However, while today's Connections is bully fun, I do wonderment astir nan contented of making each 4 groups their circumstantial colour pinch a blank – for lawsuit PURPLE RAIN, PURPLE HEART, PURPLE PROSE, PURPLE HAZE for, yes, purple. One group for illustration that, great. But four… good it conscionable made it each a spot excessively easy, right?

It's not for illustration astir of these blanks are difficult to capable in, either – nan only I didn't cognize was [yellow] JOURNALISM, but different they were each really obvious, moreover nan purple ones. I'd solved nan full point wrong astir 2 minutes – and I stake you did too.

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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 22 October, crippled #499)

YELLOW: BRAND-NAME DESIGNER, HAUTE, HIGH-END, LUXURY
GREEN: DEVISE CONCOCT, ENGINEER, HATCH, MASTERMIND
BLUE: NASA SPACECRAFT GALILEO, PIONEER, VIKING, VOYAGER
PURPLE: GAMES WHERE YOU SAY THE GAME’S NAME BINGO, MARCO POLO, TAG, UNO

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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