Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 18, 2024 (Puzzle #464)

If you want to avoid making a goof on today's puzzle, you will likely need some help. There are some misleading words and a few possible categories that are not actually in this puzzle. Hopefully, with our help, you can make a winning round.

If you want to test a different puzzle game out, we recommend trying the NYT puzzle. It is challenging but very rewarding because of that difficulty. Luckily, you can undo and retry as many times as you need to on this one, because otherwise, it would be quite hard to do it in one go as you feel out what words can connect to others.

If you want to get the scoop on today's puzzle without full-on spoilers, check out these category hints.

This tricky little five by five crossword isn't always as easy as it looks; here are a couple easy tips and tricks to beat your friends' times!

If you want something more specific, we do have the full spoilers for the category names in the table below.

GATHERING SPOT OUTSIDE A RESIDENCE

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KINDS OF REELS

CARTOON DOGS MINUS «Y»

GATHERING SPOT OUTSIDE A RESIDENCE

DECK

PORCH

STOOP

YARD

While all of these things arecertainly outside of a residence, it is a little weird that they added that it had to be a gathering spot. None of these are exclusively gathering spots, even if they all can be places to gather. It's a weird nuance, but since there is not much difference in this category with or without it, I don't think that's as important.

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DISH

DOPE

INFO

SCOOP

This was hard. While I knew for sure that DISH, INFO, and SCOOP belonged here, I could not get the fourth word. DOPE has a much more obscure meaning than the one everyone uses it for, likely for good reason, and I am not sure anyone would actually use it in this way anymore, whatever the Cambridge Dictionary says. Still, if you want to have a good chuckle, read the sample sentences it gives for this definition.

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