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SometimesConnectionscan feel a bit tricky and lead to some frustration. Today’s puzzle has some words that could cause confusion, especially given what they are actually meant to represent. However, you will hopefully not need to bang your head at the wall in frustration, as with just a few hints this puzzle becomes very manageable.
Some puzzles are harder than others, and theNYT’sWordlepuzzleis one of the ones that can be both easier and harderdepending on what letters each word is using. There is a fair amount of variance day-to-day, and it provides a good opportunity to brag to your friends when you get it right in the first couple of guesses.
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Today’s Connections Category Hints
SEPTEMBER 03 #449
InConnections, there are a fair amount of things that can cause confusion when you are trying to solve the puzzle. The biggest thing to try to decipher is the category, or at least the general nature of the categories you are trying to reconstruct. To that end, here are four hints about the categories for today’s puzzle:
Once that has been considered, you might still want to check the box below to ensure you understand each category correctly before submitting guesses.
___HEAD
SAVE
SPARE
This one slightly tripped me up, as originally I had SPARE in the next category as opposed to this one. Looking at the other answers, I don’t know why, but at least I got it on the second guess. I will have to EXCUSE myself for the small display of madness. Otherwise, PARDON and SAVE felt very self-explanatory as words thatmean to absolve a person of something they have otherwise been accused of.
OVER
TOO
If something is described as “excessive” it can be EXTRA or TOO much. If someonedoes something “excessively” it can be BEYOND or OVERthe normal amount of effort. This category made a fair amount of sense to me, but I was not sure right away if TOO belonged there or not. Nothing else caught my attention besides SPARE, which I had given up on being in this category, so I went with it and luckily it was correct.
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WON
YEN
I think the biggest clue here is YEN, as it is the one that clues players in the most to know this is likely a foreign word or includes foreign words. This is particularly tricky to spot, as acouple of these currencies would not be as common knowledge for most Americansplaying this puzzle as the British Pound might be.
REAL and WON are less commonly referred to in the broader culture, and the reason I recognized which words belonged in this category is theResident Evil 4 Remakeused one of them.
FORE
KNUCKLE
Getting the last of these was easier due to getting the others first, but I think this one is more easily guessed than other similar categories in the past. Possiblybecause FORE and ARROW are paired with HEADcommonly in conversation, and it does not feel as forced as other categories have. That being said, I’m still glad I got this category last as I still do not like these categories often.
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With your forehead now full ofConnectionsstrategies, time to throw it all away by focusing on a different puzzle game:
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Wordle(NYT)
Solve a random five-letter word by using color clues.EveryWordleanswercan be found in our daily updated list.
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Hello Wordl
Very similar toWordle, where players change the number of letters in the word.
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Worldle
Name a country based only on its silhouette, and a few geographical hints.
