Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 28, 2024 (Puzzle #474)

If you want to win today’s puzzle, there are a few ways to make this easier. There are a lot of seemingly disconnected words in the puzzle, as well as many “” that could trip players up. This made it harder for us to solve today, so we also know how to help you avoid those pitfalls. Here are our tricks for solving today’s puzzle and avoiding the traps.

If you like, you will likely want the daily puzzle, which has many similarities. Instead of words, you are playing with letters and figuring out where they all go in the five available slots. If you guess correctly and quickly enough, you will come up with a five-letter word in the puzzle that has never been used before. It requires a lot of logical deduction and feels really good when you get it right.

Today, as stated, an interesting combination of words can lead to a lot of frustration due to some of the “fake” categories that players might find. It was difficult for us, and some of the real categories were harder to spot because of it. To help you avoid these traps, here are four clues:

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.

If you still need some help after examining these clues, we have more information for you. Knowing the category names eliminates the fear of fake categories, and you can be more sure of what you are guessing. Here, then, are each of the names of the categories for today.

COMPOSITE

EMBED

ITEMS IN A MONOPOLY BOX

___ CONTROL

COMPOSITE

BLEND

COMPOUND

CROSS

HYBRID

This one felt the easiest and was, in fact, the first category I solved today. Seeing CROSS and HYBRID made me suspicious, and those suspicions were confirmed when I found COMPOUND and BLEND. This is not always a perfect guess in, as sometimes even four words together are a trap, but luckily, it was correct for this category today. I feel like there is a better way to describe what these all mean, but “Composite” does work.

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