Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 24, 2024 (Puzzle #470)

In today’s , players will want to turn over a new leaf by winning the puzzle. Interestingly, some of the easier categories seem harder than the traditionally hard categories today, but that is always down to the player’s personal experience. If you want to win, you will need to pay close attention to some of the simpler words, as they are the ones that can be deceptive today.

If you like the other word puzzles and want to test your knowledge of the dictionary, the NYT puzzle is the way to go. You will need to know as many five or more letter words as possible to get the highest score. This puzzle is less about winning and more about getting as high of a score as possible, pitting yourself against past scores and your friends if they play as well.

If you want to have the best strategy, you will be paying close attention to what the categories might be, which is always a game of working backward to deduce how the words are connected. To help you make those logical leaps, here are some clues to make it that much easier:

The Tiles game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to use various strategies to pair matching visual patterns together to build huge combos.

If you need an extra nudge to get across the finish line, knowing what theactual category names are can be a big benefit. Here are each of today’s categories, along with what color scheme they belong to.

INSPIRED

PROCURE IN ADVANCE

BIT OF PARTY DECORATION

ONLINE PERSONALITY

INSPIRED

CREATIVE

FRESH

NOVEL

ORIGINAL

In a random twist of fate, the yellow category today was the last one I was able to solve. Partly because NOVEL and BOOK could be a little tricky if you got stuck on them and partly because some of the other categories felt more straightforward. Describing a feeling can always be a bit hard, even with the right words, and in this case, connecting these four words does not seem intuitive at first glance. Seeing them together now is a little odd but not impossible.

PROCURE IN ADVANCE

BOOK

CHAR