Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 13, 2024 (Puzzle #459)

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Sometimes, things in our lives are better in bite-sized varieties. Mini Reese's, mini M&M's, mini cows, and, of course, the from the NYT. Like its bigger brother, the mini-sized version has all the complexity and cultural references you have come to expect in an itty, bitty living space. This makes it the perfect on-the-go-sized puzzle that does not overstay its welcome.

A cow jumping over the moon does seem like a tall task, and sometimes also asks you to make logical leaps that seem out of this world. Luckily, those logical leaps can become a lot smaller with a few hints like these:

Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over 1,700 words remaining as possible solutions.

Getting all the way over the moon is a different story, and we wouldn't want you to get stuck there, so to nudge you onto the other side, we have all the category names listed out to ensure success:

VITALITY

PALINDROMES FEATURING «E»

FEATURED IN «JACK AND THE BEANSTALK»

CAR MODELS

VITALITY

ENERGY

JUICE

LIFE

ZIP

This one felt quite difficult today due to the number of words you had to narrow down to be in this category. All four of these certainly make sense, but distinguishing them from words like LEVEL, PEP, and VOLT could be frustrating. ZIP and PEP to me, in particular, are extraordinarily similar with the same energetic connotations and, without knowing what the green category was supposed to be, it was very easy to mess this one up.

PALINDROMES FEATURING «E»

LEVEL

PEP

REFER

TENET

This category feels like it should be more blue or purple than it is green, simply because to meit takes more effort to recognize spelling as a connection than it