Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 5, 2024 (Puzzle #451)

If you want to land a big score on today's puzzle, we have some great hints and tips for you to help. Today's puzzle has overlapping words and harder categories to guess outright, so double-check before hitting submit. However, even if you can't get it perfect, with our help you should at least be able to keep your streak alive.

In the daily game, you cancreate matches to make even bigger streaks. It's a game all about matching and figuring out which tiles go better together than others. It also involves some logical deduction, as you have to decide what order is best to make sure you get the best score possible. It may not be, but it is quite fun.

If you want to have a blast with today's puzzle, you will want to make sure you have the best guess as to the category names. We will reveal those names later on, but for now, here are four hints as to what they might be:

If you have looked at the words and the hints and still need something more specific, here are the category names:

HAIR SALON OFFERINGS

CRITICIZE

OBTAIN

MEASURED IN FOOTBALL STATS

HAIR SALON OFFERINGS

BLOWOUT

COLOR

CUT

TRIM

This one was a bit tricky for me as I thought CUT and TRIM likely went together but was looking for words closer to those two meanings. I did not think about them as a particular offering at a hair salon.

This might be because it's been years since I stepped foot in one, preferring to just let my aunt trim my hair when it gets too uneven, but the BLOWOUT word should have been a bigger clue to me.

CRITICIZE

BASH

BLAST

PAN

SLAM

I was fairly certain that BASH, BLAST, and SLAM went together, but I was looking for more of an explosive word to be the fourth one. This made it a little harder to guess that PAN belonged here. It has been a while since I have heard anyone use it in that context.

If nothing else, is a great way to refresh your vocabulary on obscure uses of words. In particular, I thought SACK might belong here before I thought of PAN.

Four categories with