Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For October 6, 2024 (Puzzle #482)

Sometimes, it may feel like you want to flee from today’s Connections puzzle, but if you do, you will not be able to enjoy the victory screen. Instead of fleeing, use these hints to help you achieve victory even when the chances feel slim. With our help, there is still plenty of time to turn the puzzle around and figure out what the four categories are and fill them with the correct words.

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Today’s Connections Category Hints

OCTOBER 06 #482

If you have come here looking for hints, you are in the right place, as we have plenty of clues for you to figure out what kind of puzzle you are looking at. Luckily, today’s puzzle has a few challenges, but not as many as yesterday’s single starting letter puzzle. This puzzle is more about recognizing things that are grouped by what outside action or thing they are connected to rather than their definition.

• One category is about getting away.
• One category is about the kinds of things a certain animal does.
• One category is about headers you can find in a particular digital space.
• One category is about four types of one specific food.

While these clues can be helpful, there is nothing quite like having the names of the categories to speed your puzzling on its way. This often helps you distinguish between a category you are close to and one you are misled by, which is extremely valuable information in a puzzle like this.

Today’s Connections Answers

OCTOBER 06 #482

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This first category is distinct in the sense that it is the one category that focuses more on similar definitions rather than an outside association. For me, it was seeing RETREAT and LEAVE that made it easier to solve this one as I began looking for other similar words. I saw FLEE next, which informed me that this was more about the verb rather than going on a retreat or a leave, and that led me to the last word, WITHDRAW. That made me fairly confident, and it turned out to be correct when I submitted my guess.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

This was the first category I solved today and one which I attribute to my cats, as these are all things they do quite frequently. As I attempted to solve this puzzle, one of them jumped into my lap and started to PURR. I do prefer to call their KNEADing “making biscuits” but I suppose the proper word will do in a professionally made puzzle. SHED is perhaps the hardest word to put here when you are unsuspecting, but I have seen enough cat hair fill up my vacuum to add that in quickly.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

By the time I got to this category, things were a little easier with the words that remained. Seeing CONTACT and HOME were the biggest hints, but then I had to find the others. ABOUT was the next obvious choice, and the only word left that made any sense was LOGIN. Luckily, I spend a lot of time on pages of websites, so that likely contributed to some of my success here. There are not really any other words that could go here, but it may not make sense until you realize what the category actually is.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

Once I saw the remaining options, I realized that these were all types of cheese or at least cheese. Perhaps I should have recognized this one a little sooner, having grown up in Wisconsin, the home of cheese, but I solved this puzzle fast enough that I did not even consider many of these words ahead of time. COTTAGE and HOME: From the previous category, I briefly considered belonging together with RETREAT, but there was not a fourth word to add, and I quickly dropped it.

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