Today’s NYT “Connections” tips and answers for October 30th (#507)

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ForbesNYT “Connections” Tips and Answers for Tuesday, October 29 (#506)From Kris Holt

It's Wednesday and you know what that means: it's time for another round Connections!

Today NYT Connections Hints and answers for Wednesday, October 30th will follow soon.

How to play connections

Connections is a free, popular one New York Times daily pun. You will receive a new puzzle every day at midnight. You can play on that NYT Website or gaming app.

You will be presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to divide them into four groups of four by figuring out the connections between them. The groups can be items you can click on, names of research participants, or words preceded by a body part.

Each puzzle has only one solution, and you have to be careful when it comes to words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix up the words to perhaps better see the connections between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often contains puns.

Select four words that you think go together and click Send. If you guess and are wrong, you lose a life. When you're close to finding the right group, you may see a message saying you're one word away from the right group, but you still need to figure out which word to swap.

If you make four mistakes, the game is over. Let's make sure that this doesn't happen with the help of some tips, and if you really find it difficult, even with today's ones Connections Answer. Like with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have one NYT You can access this with an All Access or Games subscription Connections Archive. This includes every previous game from Connectionsso you can go back and play any songs you missed.

Aside from the first 60 or so games, you should be able to find my clues for each grid via Google if you need to! Simply click here and enter the date of the game for which you need hints or answers to the search query.

What are today's connection notes?

Scroll slowly! Right after the clues for each of today's Connections Groups, I will reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you what words appear in them.

Today's 16 words are…

• IDEA
• BOOM
• PACKAGING
• DOLLY
• SKATEBOARD
• GAFFER
• WAGON
• BEST BOY
• LINE
• GREAT
• ELECTRICAL
• STABLES
• RAISE
• ROLLER BLADE
• KRONER
• INCREASE

And the clues for today's groups are:

• Yellow group – significant increase
• Green Group – (I'm sorry, I can't resist)

• Blue group – difficult business
• Purple Group – popular places for shopping, with a small difference

What are today's sorority groups?

Do you need additional help?

Be warned: We're starting to get into this Spoiler territory.

Today's groups are…

• Yellow group – recovery
• Green Group – Things with Wheels
• Blue group – band types
• Purple Group – retail chains with changed letter

What are today's connection solutions?

Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today Connections Answer.

This is your final warning!

Today Connections Answers are…

• Yellow Group – Upswing (BOOM, RISE, SPIKE, SURGE)
• Green group – things with wheels (DOLLY, ROLLERBLADE, SKATEBOARD, WAGON)
• Blue group – types of adhesive tape (DUCT, ELECTRICAL, GAFFER, PACKING)
• Lila Group – retail chains with changed letter (BEST BOY, IDEA, KRONER, STABLES)

Hell yeah, that's three perfect games in a row and overall wins for me. This is what happened to me:

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At first I thought there might be a group of things you would see on a movie set: BOOM, DOLLY, BEST BOY and GAFFER. But no! I've safely mastered this diversionary tactic.

SKATEBOARD and ROLLERBLADE helped me get the greens and then the blues were easy to see. After figuring out the yellows, I decided to submit the purple group first, even though I didn't understand the connection at first. I giggled out loud when I saw “retail chains with a changed letter” appear. Give me strength.

In case you're wondering, the purple colors refer to Best Buy, Ikea, Kroger and Staples.

That's all for today Connections Hints and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for tips and the walkthrough for Thursday's game if you need them.

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