Today's Connections Hints & Answers For October 10, 2024 (Puzzle #486)

If you are eyeing the words in today’s puzzle and cannot figure out what goes where, it is okay because we have tips and tricks for you. There are some fun references and categories in today’s puzzle, which makes it a great puzzle to solve. If you want some help in doing so, continue scrolling below to get clues and spoilers for this puzzle.

If you want to keep puzzling, you can look at the daily puzzle. It is an interesting twist on your dictionary knowledge, as it requires you to know words constructed using the puzzle's letters. One of the twists is that it has to be over a certain letter count, so no tiny words! You will have a great time looking at the cute honeycombs as you attempt to finish the puzzle and get another win today.

If you are looking for hints on today’s puzzle, you have come to the right place. Today’s puzzle is not overly challenging, at least comparatively, but that can also lure you into a false sense of security. There are also two categories that will be hard to solve without the right cultural knowledge, which can be the case quite frequently but is definitely the case today.

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 more hints, you can keep scrolling. Sometimes, even knowing the category is not quite enough, depending on your familiarity with it, but other times, it is just enough to push you over the edge. With any luck, you are familiar with three categories, so that you can leave the fourth for last.

BODY PARTS

COOL, IN '80S SLANG

MOVIES

WORDS IN «DO-RE-MI»

BODY PARTS

ARM

EYE

HIP

LEG

This category is the easiest and most obvious one today. There are no other real body parts throughout the rest of the puzzle, and seeing ARM and LEG is likely enough to clue you in. HIP and EYE are not limbs; luckily, this category is not looking for just limbs but for any body parts in the puzzle. This one is an excellent start