NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Sunday, September 29 (game #476)

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Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

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NYT Connections today (game #476) – today’s words

(Image credit: New York Times)Today’s NYT Connections words are…

PLAYJUSTICETHROWENERGYHONORPASSКЕЕРSHAMDISCARDSHEETSTATEFULFILLBLANKETLABORUPHOLDDRAWNYT Connections today (game #476) – hint #1 – group hintsWhat are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: Do as you sayGreen: CoversBlue: Snap?Purple: They run the countryNeed more clues?

We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #476) – hint #2 – group answersWhat are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: MAKE GOOD ON, AS A PROMISEGREEN: BEDDINGBLUE: ACTIONS IN CARD GAMESPURPLE: CABINET DEPARTMENTSRight, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #476) – the answers

(Image credit: New York Times)The answers to today’s Connections, game #476, are…

YELLOW: MAKE GOOD ON, AS A PROMISE FULFILL, HONOR, KEEP, UPHOLDGREEN: BEDDING BLANKET, SHAM, SHEET, THROWBLUE: ACTIONS IN CARD GAMES DISCARD, DRAW, PASS, PLAYPURPLE: CABINET DEPARTMENTS ENERGY, JUSTICE, LABOR, STATEMy rating: ModerateMy score: 2 mistakesOh NYT, you devious things. I lost two guesses today on the blue group, ACTIONS IN CARD GAMES, because of some classic misdirection. The eventual answers were DISCARD, DRAW, PASS and PLAY, but I instead had KEEP in there as one of the solutions, which does make sense but which obviously wasn’t right.

With two guesses down I was a little worried, so moved on to other categories and instead got the yellow MAKE GOOD ON, AS A PROMISE group, which was pretty straightforward once I focused. I then got the supposedly most difficult one, the purple group, after realizing that ENERGY, JUSTICE, LABOR and STATE were all CABINET DEPARTMENTS. That made blue easier, and I solved green by default.

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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 28 September, game #475)YELLOW: COMPOSITE BLEND, COMPOUND, CROSS, HYBRIDGREEN: EMBED LODGE, PLANT, STICK, WEDGEBLUE: ITEMS IN A MONOPOLY BOX DEED, HOTEL, HOUSE, TOKENPURPLE: ___ CONTROL BIRTH, CRUISE, QUALITY, REMOTEWhat is NYT Connections?NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).