Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 26, 2024 (Puzzle #472)

In today’s , there are a few things you will need to know to get the puzzle right the first time. You only get one chance with the puzzle daily, with four guesses to get it right. This makes it important to try to get a few correct guesses, which can be difficult if you do not have any information to go off of. To help you get those correct guesses, we have some clues for you to use.

If you want another puzzle, why not try a classic like the ? The mini version of this puzzle is a nice way to pass a few minutes every day withall the great things you love about the classic puzzle in a short time. It is bite-sized and cute, with great cultural trivia and just a few words crossing over each other.

Today’s puzzle is a bit tricky, with a lot of words that could go places they are not supposed to be. What makes that a little harder is that most of these words are similar nouns, with only one category of verbs, which can make puzzles a little more challenging. With that in mind, here are four clues to help you solve the puzzle:

The Letter Boxed game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to connect letters to form words while using various strategies to win quickly.

If you still need an extra nudge, particularly for the last category, the names of the categories can often give you everything you need. Here are all four:

DECORATIVE EDGE

INCREASE, IN A WAY

SPECIFICATIONS FOR A BARTENDER

STRING ___

DECORATIVE EDGE

BORDER

FRILL

FRINGE

TRIM

For this category, narrowing it down to this exact combination can be a little tricky. They all have a lot of home improvement vibes, and I thought for a moment that WAX and MOUNT might belong with TRIM and BORDER. STRAIGHT can also be an edge or type of edge, so I thought that might also belong here. However, that is not the case in today’s puzzle, and it is more specifically about the edges than home improvement types.

INCREASE, IN A WAY

GROW

MOUNT

SWELL

WAX

This category does not make as much sense to me, even after the