Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 25, 2024 (Puzzle #471)

If you want to get a trifecta, or perhaps more appropriately, a quadfecta, in today, you will want a few hints to get you to the finish line. Particularly in today’s puzzle, some confusing crossover words and multiple words could belong in the last category, which is often difficult anyway. This can cause a lot of confusion and frustration, particularly if you feel sure of a combination that is not working.

If you want to try something that is consistent but changing every day, you will want to check out some tips for The Password Game. While you will know what to expect for every rule every day, theanswers for each rule are different, and you will have to constantly change your answer to ensure it fits all the rules. It can feel frustrating, but the ridiculous nonsense you will have at the end can make it well worth it.

If you want some nudges without spoilers for today’s puzzle, we have a clue for each category that can help you separate the words and deduce the answers. This is a little tricky with today’s words, given what the categories are, but we have worked out some clues that can help you.

The New York Times Vertex game asks you to form a picture by connecting dots, but you have to understand the image to solve this puzzle quickly.

Once you have checked out those clues and decided they weren’t enough, we will have some more hints for you in the form of the category names. Check them out below to get afuller picture of the puzzle.

TRIO OF SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS

NEEDS FOR PAINTING A ROOM

FOOD NAMED AFTER CITIES

___ DERBY

TRIO OF SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS

HAT TRICK

THREEPEAT

TRIFECTA

TRIPLE CROWN

Today's first and last categories involve sports, and one of the achievements mentioned in this category is gained by winning the KENTUCKY Derby, one of the words also in the last one. This can make things difficult and frustrating, but the key to this isthat it is specifically about the achievement, not the individual events. HOME RUN is also a potential red herring