Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 3, 2024 (Puzzle #449)

Sometimes can feel a bit tricky and lead to some frustration. Today's puzzle has some words that could cause confusion, especially given what they are actually meant to represent. However, you will hopefully not need to bang your head at the wall in frustration, as with just a few hints this puzzle becomes very manageable.

Some puzzles are harder than others, and the NYT's puzzle is one of the ones that can be both easier and harderdepending on what letters each word is using. There is a fair amount of variance day-to-day, and it provides a good opportunity to brag to your friends when you get it right in the first couple of guesses.

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.

In, there are a fair amount of things that can cause confusion when you are trying to solve the puzzle. The biggest thing to try to decipher is the category, or at least the general nature of the categories you are trying to reconstruct. To that end, here are four hints about the categories for today's puzzle:

Once that has been considered, you might still want to check the box below to ensure you understand each category correctly before submitting guesses.

ABSOLVE

EXCESSIVELY

GLOBAL CURRENCIES

___HEAD

ABSOLVE

EXCUSE

PARDON

SAVE

SPARE

This one slightly tripped me up, as originally I had SPARE in the next category as opposed to this one. Looking at the other answers, I don't know why, but at least I got it on the second guess. I will have to EXCUSE myself for the small display of madness. Otherwise, PARDON and SAVE felt very self-explanatory as words that mean to absolve a person of something they have otherwise been accused of.

EXCESSIVELY

BEYOND

EXTRA

OVER

TOO

If something is described as «excessive» it can be EXTRA or TOO much. If someone does something «excessively» it can be BEYOND or OVER the normal amount of effort. This category made a fair amount of sense to me, but