Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For October 11, 2024 (Puzzle #487)

Dive into today’s Connections puzzle and get the hints you need to make it to the end. Today’s puzzle has some good, fun words that could be placed in a non-existent category together, given the chance. To help you avoid that and to keep the puzzle from tripping you up, we have everything you need to have a successful puzzling time and keep you from getting frustrated.

Once you finish this puzzle, there is still time to start a second one. I would recommend the daily Password Game puzzle, which has the same basic outline with massively different results daily. This one has many other options, with the end goal of creating a password that plays by the puzzle’s rules. Often, future rules change past ones, and you must return to the drawing board several times before finishing the project.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

OCTOBER 11 #487

In order to solve today’s puzzle successfully, you will need to be cautious with your guesses. There are some tricky combinations in here, with words that could go in different places depending on what you make of them. Getting them right will require a careful eye and some forethought on your part. To make that easier, here are four clues:

• One category is about how a person might feel about something else – could be anything or anyone – in a positive way
• One category is about ways to get into a particular recreational place
• One category is about things that provide something more to the experience
• One category is about a character trait

Once you have tried to solve the puzzle with just those clues, you can try again using the category names listed below. In this case, it will likely be all you need to solve the puzzle, as the tricky combinations mostly work because you do not know what the categories are.

Today’s Connections Answers

OCTOBER 11 #487

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category was not the first one I solved today, mainly because I was still trying to decide if RELISH belonged with GRAVY and, in a couple of other words, to be in a toppings category. However, after deciding on the following category and realizing that DIP was out of the equation, I looked around for what else could go together. RELISH and SAVOR seemed like a possible combination, and soon enough, I could add in TREASURE and VALUE. Some of these words can be both nouns and verbs, but luckily this one was okay.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

This was the first category I solved today, mainly due to the SPLASH and SWIM combination. After noticing that, I thought DIVE was another possibility and the last word I added was DIP. I do not really consider a dip a “jump” into the pool, but I suppose it can be used for this puzzle. This did change my thoughts concerning the rest of the puzzle and a fair number of words, so solving this early definitely prevented a potential disaster.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This was the last category I ended up solving today, mainly due to how the words lined up. As I came to this one last, I no longer had to guess, but before, I had GRAVY and FROSTING together, but not because it meant something extra. I also had SAUCE and RELISH with them at one point, but when that guess was wrong, and it was not even one word away, I knew I was on the wrong track. This led me to figure out the remaining category before I came back to this one.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

BRASS, CHEEK, and NERVE made me think this was a potential category, but finding the last word for it was difficult. This was mainly because I hadn’t given up on SAUCE, which means an actual food item, but after I saw that it didn’t belong in that category, I had to figure something else out. Mainly, it ended up here because none of the other words seemed to go with CHEEK or NERVE, and I thought this one might be closest. Fortunately, I was right this time.

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