Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For September 28, 2024 (Puzzle #474)

If you want to win today’s Connections puzzle, there are a few ways to make this easier. There are a lot of seemingly disconnected words in the puzzle, as well as many “fake categories” that could trip players up. This made it harder for us to solve today, so we also know how to help you avoid those pitfalls. Here are our tricks for solving today’s puzzle and avoiding the traps.

If you like Connections, you will likely want the daily Wordle puzzle, which has many similarities. Instead of words, you are playing with letters and figuring out where they all go in the five available slots. If you guess correctly and quickly enough, you will come up with a five-letter word in the puzzle that has never been used before. It requires a lot of logical deduction and feels really good when you get it right.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

SEPTEMBER 28 #474

Today, as stated, an interesting combination of words can lead to a lot of frustration due to some of the “fake” categories that players might find. It was difficult for us, and some of the real categories were harder to spot because of it. To help you avoid these traps, here are four clues:

• One category is about intermixing.
• One category is about making sure something is secure.
• One category is about things seen in a game.
• One category is about four words that can all be put in front of another in a phrase – the shared word is about management.

If you still need some help after examining these clues, we have more information for you. Knowing the category names eliminates the fear of fake categories, and you can be more sure of what you are guessing. Here, then, are each of the names of the categories for today.

Today’s Connections Answers

SEPTEMBER 28 #474

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one felt the easiest and was, in fact, the first category I solved today. Seeing CROSS and HYBRID made me suspicious, and those suspicions were confirmed when I found COMPOUND and BLEND. This is not always a perfect guess in Connections, as sometimes even four words together are a trap, but luckily, it was correct for this category today. I feel like there is a better way to describe what these all mean, but “Composite” does work.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

LODGE ended up tricking me for a while, as I thought of it more as a building than an action. Especially with HOUSE and HOTEL, I thought it was more likely a category related to real estate or vacation destinations if CRUISE was also added in. STICK and PLANT can go together in multiple different ways, so those two made sense, but figuring out that it was supposed to be an action was hard when all of these words were also nouns with different meanings.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

I was surprisingly not far off on the idea of a real estate category, but more because the game of Monopoly is all about real estate and getting a DEED to those properties. However, I was not expecting it to be gamified real estate, so figuring out that TOKEN also belonged here was much harder. In the end, I didn’t manage it, but luckily my mistake is your gain. Despite my misstep, it was fun to see another game mentioned here.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

I never made it to this category, but as I already stated, CRUISE was tricking me early with those other potential destinations. I did eventually make the connection to CRUISE control, but figuring out which other words went with it was harder. I thought perhaps it had to do with cars, and I almost had this category with CRUISE, QUALITY, and REMOTE, but I put it with STICK instead of BIRTH. I was unlucky today because of this, but you can win because of my misfortune.

Other Games Like Connections

As an avid lover of geography and studying cultures, Worldle is one of my favorite daily puzzle games. It is a great way to start learning geography, but it can also be a way to dive deep with ways to guess not only the mystery country but also the neighbors, the capital, and many other fun facts about those countries.