Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For October 26, 2024 (Puzzle #503)

If you are struggling to follow the thread on today’s Connections puzzle, then we can help you pull it out and connect the dots. Today’s puzzle was difficult enough that I felt relieved when I got the right answer on the last guess, but not so bad that I started hitting random words to get it over faster. I felt like I had an idea of what should be happening in the puzzle for the majority of the time, but I could have used a few hints to help me out.

If you want to use the new words that Connections teaches you, try the daily Spelling Bee puzzle. You will have to figure out what words can be made out of a group of letters, all of which must include the letter in the center honeycomb. This can make it hard to unscramble the puzzle, but there are many more guesses for you to use up than what the Connections puzzles give you so there is no harm in trying.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

OCTOBER 26 #503

There are some challenges in this puzzle, which mainly stem from the words with multiple meanings. Many of these look like they could form their own category, but in reality, they are not even in the same one. To work around that, you have to think hard about which categories you see could have four words in them and which do not. To help you decipher that mini-puzzle, here are four clues:

• One category is about how a person might feel when they caught off guard
• One category is about a back-and-forth digital discussion
• One category is about household items that share a distinctive feature
• One category is about things that all have a similar form

If you are still unsure about what the categories are, you can see the full names of each one in the table below so that you do not have to be frustrated anymore.

Today’s Connections Answers

OCTOBER 26 #503

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category was an interesting puzzle, as I had a few of these words in other possible groupings at the beginning. RATTLE was with some of the other “baby” items like CRADLE and ROCKER, while THROW was with SWING for a much shorter time as a possible sports category. However, looking at FAZE was what made me rethink all of that and put these four words together instead. Although, I almost always use faze together with “not” to describe someone remaining calm, and it took me a moment to remember that by itself it means the opposite.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

This was the first category I got today, likely due to my deep immersion into discussion threads for online school. I saw CONVERSATION and CHAT and started looking for other possibilities. I did not see an immediate answer until I saw THREAD and realized they were talking about a digital conversation as opposed to an in-person one. CHAIN was the last one I added on, which does feel apt in a way, as I was usually the one that ended those email chains that spread like fire in the early 2000s.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one I began suspecting when I saw HAMMOCK and CRADLE, but I mistakingly pivoted to thinking it was things made out of thread. However, there were only a couple of words that could fit that idea, so I moved on to things that hung from something else. This still was not quite enough, as ROCKER was still missing. I gave up on that idea and added in ROCKER more as a hopeful guess than anything else, and fortunately for me, it was correct.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

I had almost all of these words paired off with something else throughout the whole puzzle, and I don’t know that I ever would have put these four together. I always think of ROLLER in the skating sense as well, so even if I realized that three of these words were the same shape, I would have had a hard time putting the last word in. That did not happen, however, so I am instead able to say, “Phew,” and be glad I finished this puzzle without failing.

Other Games Like Connections

If you want to keep on puzzling and keep your brain healthy, you can try one of the ones listed below. Absurdle is one of my favorites, as you can keep solving puzzles past the daily one and continue on having a good time.