In today’s Connections, there are a few things you will need to know to get the puzzle right the first time. You only get one chance with the Connections puzzle daily, with four guesses to get it right. This makes it important to try to get a few correct guesses, which can be difficult if you do not have any information to go off of. To help you get those correct guesses, we have some clues for you to use.
If you want another puzzle, why not try a classic like the Mini Crossword puzzle? The mini version of this puzzle is a nice way to pass a few minutes every day with all the great things you love about the classic puzzle in a short time. It is bite-sized and cute, with great cultural trivia and just a few words crossing over each other.
Today’s Connections Category Hints
SEPTEMBER 26 #472
Today’s puzzle is a bit tricky, with a lot of words that could go places they are not supposed to be. What makes that a little harder is that most of these words are similar nouns, with only one category of verbs, which can make puzzles a little more challenging. With that in mind, here are four clues to help you solve the puzzle:
- One category is about something you would find on a wall
- One category is about making more
- One category is about customizations for a specific type of beverage
- One category is about four words that often follow a singular one in a phrase
If you still need an extra nudge, particularly for the last category, the names of the categories can often give you everything you need. Here are all four:
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DECORATIVE EDGE |
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INCREASE, IN A WAY |
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SPECIFICATIONS FOR A BARTENDER |
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STRING ___ |
Today’s Connections Answers
SEPTEMBER 26 #472
Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained
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DECORATIVE EDGE |
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BORDER |
FRILL |
FRINGE |
TRIM |
For this category, narrowing it down to this exact combination can be a little tricky. They all have a lot of home improvement vibes, and I thought for a moment that WAX and MOUNT might belong with TRIM and BORDER. STRAIGHT can also be an edge or type of edge, so I thought that might also belong here. However, that is not the case in today’s puzzle, and it is more specifically about the edges than home improvement types.
Green Answers: Revealed & Explained
INCREASE, IN A WAY |
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GROW |
MOUNT |
SWELL |
WAX |
This category does not make as much sense to me, even after the fact and looking at it now. “Increase” seems to be a bit of a stretch for MOUNT and WAX. The best I can come up with is that mounting something increases the height that it sits at, and waxing adds a surface and increases its mass a bit. That’s probably why they added “In a way,” but it feels more underhanded than usual for this level category. It would make more sense if it was in a harder category, but that is what it is.
Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained
SPECIFICATIONS FOR A BARTENDER |
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DRY |
NEAT |
STRAIGHT |
VIRGIN |
As a coffee barista, I am much more aware of coffee customizations than alcoholic ones, which did make this category a little harder. VIRGIN is probably the biggest hint as to what this category is supposed to be, with DRY being one of the more popular customizations in general cultural knowledge. I was unaware that NEAT was a possible customization, but looking at the rest of the words, I don’t see anything else that I would recognize as a possible customization either. Connections want me to learn more about alcohol, apparently.
Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained
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STRING ___ |
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BEAN |
BIKINI |
CHEESE |
THEORY |
This is one of those category types that becomes much easier as soon as you see the category name. It is often the most scattered and hard to piece together without that knowledge, but knowing that you are looking for words after “String” would be a lifesaver. As I have to solve the puzzle without that, I have found recently that trying to think about phrases associated with words in the puzzle is an excellent way to parse them out on your own. In this case, CHEESE and THEORY were the biggest hints for me.
Other Games Like Connections
If you want more crossword puzzle goodness after looking at the Mini Crossword and solving this puzzle, Crosswordle is an excellent way to combine a lot of different puzzle types and interests. Instead of one word, you must find two that intersect, just like in a crossword puzzle.
