Today's Connections Hints and Answers for October 13, 2024 (Puzzle #489)

As it digs its claws into today Connections puzzle, you may encounter a stumbling block or find yourself struggling to complete the puzzle. There is today's puzzle an assortment of words that can be mistaken for something elsemakes it easy to make false assumptions. This can lead to frustration and potentially losing the game if you get stuck on a certain set of words. With this guide, you can move past that frustration and move on to victory.

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Today's Connections Category Tips

OCTOBER 13 #489

When defining categories, the biggest challenge is making sure you're separating the right words. If you have created a category that is not in the puzzle, it will be more difficult to finish the puzzle. In today's puzzle, there are some words that don't quite fit togetherbut there's more to them than meets the eye, and finding out what that is will help solve the puzzle.

• A category is all things made of the same substance.
• One category is about common things seen on a popular TV show.
• A category is about different types of the same clothing.
• A category consists of about four words that share a common word in a sentence.

If you put all these tips together and still need a little nudge, you can use the following spoilers to help you. First all the category names, then all the answers for each.

Today's Relationship Answers

OCTOBER 13 #489

Yellow Answers: Detected and explained

This category contains many unrelated words. Claw and hoof may look very similar at first glance. NAIL can fit in with ANVIL and HAMMER as a tool-based category. But there aren't many other words that would fall into the same group, and this one can make you think of a fingernail as a fingernail and not a tool. HORN is a little different, but putting the other three together can help you figure out that it's also made of hair.

Green Answers: Revealed and Explained

This is the category I'm stuck in due to a lot of guesswork. From COYOTE and TNT, I knew it was related to Road Runner cartoonsbut it was a little difficult to find out what other words belonged. I took BOULDER as the third word and felt pretty good about it. Unfortunately, the last word was a bit heavy. I thought HAMMER and ANVIL were both options, but I chose the wrong one first. I was so sure I had the right category, but I just couldn't track it down and put it together.

Blue Answers: Revealed and Explained

I felt good that there were different types of pants in the category, but my fashion sense was not as good as my other skills. I was sure with CAPRI and CARGO, but I didn't know HAMMER and STIRRUP were pants types too. In this case, knowing the category didn't help me, and I had a hard time finding other words to fill this category. Stirrup, at least, I would assume is associated with clothing or accessories in the horse sense, but HAMMER didn't make any sense to me.

Purple Answers: Revealed and Explained

By the time I entered this category, I had already made many wrong guesses. At one point I thought that DRUM might be related to other cartoon words, but I had no idea that the other three words could be connected. Sometimes, it is is a big clue that they can go togetherbut I haven't had a chance to act on this information. Sometimes you fail with a puzzle and that was my experience today.

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