Today's Connections Hints and Answers for October 19, 2024 (Puzzle #495)

If you have a bee in your bonnet about today Connections puzzle, you might want to solve it. Here's everything you need to make it happen, including tips, tricks and random jokes to help you do it. Today's puzzle was easier in some ways and a little harder in others, especially according to two categories. These categories overlap quite a bit and have very similar words, so you'll have to pay close attention to get it right.

If you want to try something a little different, you should try the NYT The Strands puzzle. it is so very similar to something like a word searchbut there is one theme that all the words relate to. If you guess the wrong word, you'll start collecting clues to help you figure out the actual words. A special golden word that revolves around the whole puzzle.

Today's Connections Category Tips

OCTOBER 19 #495

If you want to get the right answers, you'll need a nuanced understanding of a few words. There are many words that can all fit into one giant category, so it's important to understand what makes them different. In this puzzle, you'll want to look carefully at the verbs and decide what makes them different and which might belong elsewhere. Below are four more tips to help you distinguish them further:

• One category is about a group of verbs
• A category is about a group of things that have one of five common senses
• A category is about things that can harm you in a certain way
• A category is about four things that are big names in a particular medium

To solve the rest of the puzzle, you will need category names. This is the most important thing to get right as it determines how you win the game.

Today's Relationship Answers

OCTOBER 19 #495

Yellow Answers: Detected and explained

This was actually the last category I tackled today, as I thought PROVOKE would have been more violently worded. Instead, with a a softer group of words that simply means to bring something else. I thought that the words GENERATE, INSPIRE, and PROMPT were probably related, but then I saw only three words without PROVOKE, and decided it was a trick until I had only those four left by the end of the puzzle.

Green Answers: Revealed and Explained

Likewise, in this category I thought incense belonged more to PROVOKE and other words. However, after being proven wrong on this account, I was looking for other words found lotion and soap and thought it might be the bath and body products category. The next thing I saw was CANDLE, which changed my mind about exactly what the category was, and I realized that INCENSE had to belong there. This is actually a category full of things that trigger my asthma, but I'll pretend otherwise for the sake of the puzzle.

Blue Answers: Revealed and Explained

It was fun when I figured out what was going on. I saw a WASP and a jellyfish and knew they both had some kind of sting. GITCY was the next word I added and I had to find the last word. By this time, my theory about other words that INSULT would have been debunked, so I thought it should have stung more figuratively. And that gave me an excuse to think Finding Nemoit's always a very pleasant time with a slight sting of tears.

Purple Answers: Revealed and Explained

This was actually the first category I was able to tackle today, probably because of my immersion into the world of video games. I immediately saw MADDEN and CIVILIZATION, and while I've only played one of them, I'm well aware that sports games exist. After that I looked at the rest of the words and I He saw HALO and METROID and knew it couldn't be a coincidence. It would be very strange if these words did not belong together in one category.

Other games like connections

If you want to continue your puzzling adventures, you should try one of the ones in the table below. me personally had a great time trying it out Dordle recently and while learning their secrets, I found myself solving their freestyle puzzles over and over in a row.