Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 16, 2024 (Puzzle #462)

If you're having trouble with the newest ' puzzle, we have all the clues and tips you need to get the win. There are some interesting words in today's puzzle, some of which are hard to put in their proper places which is what we are here to help you with.

If you want to do a different type of matching, you should play the NYT game. Your matching skills are sure to be put to the ultimate test, as youhave to match each layer of the tiles separately in the game. This does mean however that when done right you can get the ultimate combo leading to a big score at the end of the puzzle.

If you want to make solving this puzzle a bit less prickly, use these four clues or scroll down for full spoilers.

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

Now if your prickly senses are not tingling just yet, the good news is we have more clues waiting for you just ahead. The first of which is the category names, which you can use to try to put the puzzle together yourself.

FOREMOST

SPIKY THINGS

OVERLY SENTIMENTAL WORK

THINGS THAT ARE CAPPED

FOREMOST

CHIEF

PREMIER

PRINCIPAL

SUPREME

If you are looking for a leader in something, these are the words you would use to describe it. There are plenty of cases where the leader is not the best in many situations, but these are the words to describe them in any case. However, the chief player of something like would also be the best, at least of those known to be playing.

SPIKY THINGS

CACTUS

HEDGEHOG

MACE

PINEAPPLE

This category missed my cat's claws as being one of the more spiky things on the planet, but other than thatthese words are pretty spiky. The HEDGEHOG is notably the cutest spiky thing on the list, and is something I strongly considered getting before I got my spiky cat. PINEAPPLE is usually a little too prickly even removed from the spiky outing for me, and it is definitely not as cute.

Four categories with four words each sounds simple, but