Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For October 28 (#505)

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ForbesToday’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, October 27 (#504)By Kris Holt

Hey, everyone! I hope you had a killer weekend (y’know, because it’s almost Halloween). I had a relaxing one with my partner, thanks for asking. You’re going to have an excellent week, I’m sure of it.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, October 28, are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are…

• SPELL
• LOVE
• PLEASE
• HOLD
• PRESTO
• MEAN
• THANK YOU
• SHAZAM
• AUDIBLE
• ABRACADABRA
• SIGNIFY
• TIDAL
• SUGGEST
• HAVE
• PANDORA
• CHERISH

And the hints for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group — hear these out
• Green group — imply, denote
• Blue group — make an eternal commitment with these
• Purple group — uttering these can make something remarkable happen

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s groups are…

• Yellow group — audio apps
• Green group — indicate
• Blue group — Church of England wedding vow verbs
• Purple group — magic words

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are…

• Yellow group — audio apps (AUDIBLE, PANDORA, SHAZAM, TIDAL)
• Green group — indicate (MEAN, SIGNIFY, SPELL, SUGGEST)
• Blue group — Church of England wedding vow verbs (CHERISH, HAVE, HOLD, LOVE)
• Purple group — magic words (ABRACADABRA, PLEASE, PRESTO, THANK YOU)

It’s nice to get back to winning ways with a perfect game. Here’s how I fared:

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I clocked right away that there was a group of magic or magic-related words — ABRACADABRA doesn’t have a million meanings. But right before I made a guess of SPELL, ABRACADABRA, PRESTO and SHAZAM, I realized the latter word had to go with the yellows.

Seeing HAVE, HOLD and CHERISH next to each other after the grid rearranged made it easy to spot the blues (I’ve heard those vows at a few weddings). The greens were next up, leaving the purples — which had two other but also very important magic words than I first expected — for victory.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Tuesday’s game if you need them.

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