Today’s NYT Connections Clue and Answers for October 30, #507

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Need answers to New York Times Connections puzzle? me Wordle it’s more of a vocabulary test but Connections it’s more of a puzzle. You are given 16 words and asked to combine them into four groups that are somehow related to each other. Sometimes they’re obvious, but games editor Wyna Liu knows how to trick you by using words that can fit into multiple groups. Read today’s Connections clues and answers.

There is also news in the world of Connections. The Times now has a Connections botlike the one used for Wordle for a while. Go there after the game to get a numerical score and have the app analyze your answers. And players who are registered in the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progressincluding the number of puzzles completed, their winning percentage, the number of times they got a perfect score, and their winning streak.

More details: Hints, tips and strategies to help you win at NYT Connections every time

How to play Connections

Easy to play. It’s hard to win. Look at the 16 words and mentally put them into four related groups. Click on the four words that you think go together. The groups are color coded, although you won’t know what goes where until you see the answer. The yellow group is the easiest, then green, then blue, and purple is the hardest. Look carefully at the words and think about the related terms. Sometimes the connection is connected only with part of the word. At one point, four words were grouped because each started with a rock band name, including “Rushmore” and “Journeyman.”

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Tips for today’s Connections groups

Here are the four grouping clues in today’s Connections puzzle, ordered from the easiest yellow group to the challenging (and sometimes weird) purple group.

Hint of the yellow group: Getting up

Tip for the green group: Bicycles have them.

Blue Group Hint: Pride of 3M

Purple Group Hint: Game with store names

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Exaltation

Green group: Things with wheels

Blue group: Types of tape

Purple group: Retail chains with a letter have changed

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What are today’s Connections answers?

Yellow words in today’s Connections

The topic is uplifting. The four answers are boom, boom, boom and boom.

Green words in today’s Connections

The theme is things with wheels. The four answers are fates, roller skates, a skateboard, and a van.

Blue words in today’s Connections

Topic – types of tape. Four answers: ductwork, electrical, gaffer and packaging.

Purple words in today’s Connections

Topic trade networks with a changed letter. The four answers are Best Boy (Best Buy), Idea (IKEA), Crowns (Kroger), and Stables (Staples).