Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For November 02, 2024 (Puzzle #510)

Getting the drop on today’s Connections puzzle will help ease your frustration and win without a lot of arguing with yourself. Today, it was a lack of knowledge of some of the general categories that stumped me, and that is one thing that you cannot well prepare for without some hints as to what’s coming. However, you can use the hints we learned through fire to keep you from suffering the same fate.

If you are looking for a different type of word-based game, you can check out the daily Spelling Bee puzzle. This one allows you to create words using just the letters available to you in the honeycombs. However, the catch is that you must use the center letter in the golden honeycomb in every word no matter what. You also cannot use 3-letter words, which forces you to use more creativity and expand your knowledge of the dictionary while you do it.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

NOVEMBER 02 #510

As I stated, today’s puzzle will be more challenging depending on some more specialized knowledge of certain categories. While this is to an extent true in every puzzle, this one is tricky because of the words that are actually used, as they are not as obviously different to someone who doesn’t know any better. To help you figure out what you’re missing, here are four clues:

• One category is about items from a specific room
• One category is about people that oversee certain functions
• One category is about things you can do in a particular activity
• One category is about different varieties of accessories that you can use

If you still need some hints to help you sort the remnant of words out, there are some category names waiting to do so in the table below:

Today’s Connections Answers

NOVEMBER 02 #510

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category was the easiest for me today, but there were still some tricky bits. This is because of CABINET, which is something that could easily belong with the rest of the kitchen items. Deciding which word to take out and which to add back in can be difficult, especially because not every kitchen has a RANGE. It is also a word that I could easily see belonging in some of the later categories. However, if you are paying attention to some of the later categories, it is clearer that you should not put CABINET here.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

Once you have figured out the previous category, this one might be a little easier. PANEL might be harder, but the one thing that makes this category interesting is that these are all also wooden items, except for COUNCIL. At one point I had guessed all of these words with PLANK instead, and I was not sure what to do with the information that it was “one away” at first. Luckily I was able to figure this one out, even if the last couple of categories were less fortunate for me.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one was where I got a lot less lucky, as I am generally unaware of specific kinds of exercises like these. Even if I recognized PLANK and CRUNCH, which I am aware of, I would not have recognized either BOAT or MOUNTAIN CLIMBER as a type of core exercise. It was unfortunate, as sometimes you can guess that a word is something else even if you don’t know the category well, but today that was not the case. And worse, I did not recognize many of the next category’s words either.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

While my ears are pierced and I even have more than one in my ear, I do not actually go out and buy earrings very often. Typically, I just wear a STUD or a bar, and all of the wooden items had me thinking about studs in a wall. I would have recognized HOOP if I thought about it, but I still am not sure what a CHANDELIER earring is, although I could guess. Perhaps tomorrow I will be a little luckier, and it is always a new start with each new puzzle.

Other Games Like Connections

When I feel sad about not getting the Connections puzzle correct, I often go to one of the other puzzles and try to solve one of those instead. Today, that was just the regular Wordle puzzle for me since it is a little easier to figure out than the others in the box.