NYT Connections Notes and Answers Today – Saturday, September 28th (#475)

Looking for today's Connections answers? The September 28 Connections Answers for Puzzle #475 is one of the most difficult puzzles we have seen in a long time. The Connections Companion rates the difficulty of this puzzle at 4.2 out of 5.

Every day we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all four of today's answers. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below with the category titles and corresponding words. We're also including a reflection on yesterday's Puzzle #474 in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #475. Read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.

Alternatively, check out our NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.

Today's Connections Answer – Tips to help you solve it

Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle seed words as a strategy, solving connections is based on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. The difficulty level of each category is represented by a color; Yellow is the simplest grouping and purple is the most challenging. Once you make four mistakes in your guesses, the answers will appear, so hints can be helpful.

If you need hints on solving the groupings, here are the topics for each group based on order of difficulty:

🟨 Yellow: Composed
🟩 Green: Embed
🟦 Blue: Items in a Monopoly box
🟪 Purple: _____ control

These tips should at least help you find today's Connections answers. If not, you can read on for more guidance. If you just want to know the answer, keep scrolling down.

Here's a bigger hint: Play a game of monopoly by giving control to a few words and then embedding them into a mix.

Today's Connections answers

So what are today's Connections answers for game #475?

Drum roll please…

🟨 Composed: Blend, compound, cross, hybrid
🟩 Embed: Lodge, plant, stick, wedge
🟦 Items in a Monopoly box: Certificate, hotel, house, token
🟪 _____ control: Birth, cruise, quality, remote

Well, after yesterday's breezy 3.6, today's 4.2 did justice to that value.

It took some time, but I started with a yellow hybrid and a cross that resulted in a mix. I didn't like the terrain for the group, but I was still a little shaken from an early strike as I tried out the hotel, house, cruise and terrain, with the idea of renting vacation rentals. So I kept it for the correct answer.

One nice thing about purple is that a surprising number of the most difficult grouping categories are just ____ (word) or (word) ____.

Sometimes when you're stuck, try adding a word or creating a phrase and you'll probably find purple. That's how I got today's. Eventually I got to cruise control (especially since the cruise ship was clearly down) and the other three words quickly clicked together from there: birth, quality, and remote.

I still wasn't sure about the last two, but Lodge, Plant, Stick and Wedge seemed like the safer bet, which was correct. Although I was still in a building mindset when thinking about Lodge and Plant.

So today I ended up with the blue category “Hotel”, “House”, “Deed” and “Token” for things in a Monopoly box. I'm not sure I would have ever been able to do it naturally. An infamous story in my family is when I decided I was done with this terrible game and just “retired” in the middle of it by selling all of my possessions and items and then pushing my checker into the middle of the board. I recommend it.

Yesterday's Connections answers

Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #473, which according to the had a difficulty rating of 3.6 out of 5 Connection companion.

Today's grid really makes me curious about how the weight of these puzzles is determined. Yesterday's 2.6 was a blast for me, but I could imagine others getting away with it too.

Today I smashed it and even walked backwards. So is it a 3.6 if you don't know science fiction movies, or is it the tricky words that could fall into different categories? I'm not sure.

I saw Matrix, Dune and Gravity straight away. It took a few times to get it to work, but I knew there was something sci-fi-ish there. When we saw “Thing and Fly,” we clicked on “The” and we were able to see “The Abyss,” “The Fly,” “The Matrix,” and “The Thing,” all great movies.

I didn't jump on it, but I was looking for a potential banking category in banking, exchange, and import and trade. It didn't quite fit and felt forced. But then I noticed mound and thought about baseball, which led me to putting bench and starting side by side, which led to the trade and draft. So fantasy sports. I thought about regular exercise, but we'll take it.

Then the green category was added with gravity, meaning, substance and weight.

Eventually we ended up with a “high ground” of escarpments, dunes, hills and hills.

Today I didn't have to stare blankly at the starting grid, which was a relief.

On September 28, 2024 By John Fenwick

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