Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 17, 2024 (Puzzle #463)

If you are excited about every day, you likely also care about your score and making sure you finish each puzzle. If you are running out of guesses and want to know how to finish this one without losing your streak, you have come to the right place. We have all the hints and clues you need to keep you from losing out on today's puzzle.

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The words in today's puzzle can be a little confusing because many of them are disconnected from each other. But that is the purpose of the puzzle, to find the way these seemingly random words are connected. To help you do so, we have four hints about what you might want to consider for this puzzle.

The Spelling Bee puzzles created as a New York Times game build a streak of correct answers to get you more points, but they can be hard to keep.

If you want more of a hint for things to look for, you can see all of the category names listed below:

GET EXCITED, WITH «UP»

KINDS OF SHOES

LEGISLATIVE ROLES

NAME HOMOPHONES

GET EXCITED, WITH «UP»

AMP

FIRE

HYPE

PSYCH

This one felt like the easiest to guess today, which is not always true. PUMP is the only other word in the puzzle that I thought might belong here as a word that means getting excited, but that was ruled out as it does not make as much sense as any of the others. PSYCH has various meanings that could change its placement here, but it does belong in this case.

KINDS OF SHOES

FLAT

MULE

PUMP

SLIDE

I used to wear FLATs all the time until one nearly ruined my ankle, but MULE was a new one for me. Upon looking them up, I am not surprised I had never heard the name before as I likely would never wear them, but it's always