NYT Connections Notes and Answers Today – Friday, September 28th (#474)

Looking for today's Connections answers? The September 27 Connections Answers for Puzzle #474 make a big jump in difficulty compared to yesterday's answers, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3.6 out of 5.

Every day we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all four of today's answers. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below with the category titles and corresponding words. We're also including a reflection on yesterday's Puzzle #473 in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #474. Read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.

Alternatively, check out our NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.

Today's Connections Answer – Tips to help you solve it

Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle seed words as a strategy, solving connections is based on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. The difficulty level of each category is represented by a color; Yellow is the simplest grouping and purple is the most challenging. Once you make four mistakes in your guesses, the answers will appear, so hints can be helpful.

If you need hints on solving the groupings, here are the topics for each group based on order of difficulty:

🟨 Yellow: High area
🟩 Green: Meaning
🟦 Blue: Actions in fantasy sports
🟪 Purple: Science fiction films with “The”

These tips should at least help you find today's Connections answers. If not, you can read on for more guidance. If you just want to know the answer, keep scrolling down.

Here's a bigger hint: Grab your popcorn for a movie night as you scroll through your losing fantasy team before thinking deeply about Hills.

Today's Connections answers

So what are today's Connections answers for game #474?

Drum roll please…

🟨 Altitude range: Bench, dune, hill, hill
🟩 Meaning: Gravity, meaning, substance, weight
🟦 Actions in fantasy sports: Bank, draft, startup, trading
🟪 Science fiction films with “The”: Abyss, fly, matrix, thing

Today's grid really makes me curious about how the weight of these puzzles is determined. Yesterday's 2.6 was a blast for me, but I could imagine others getting away with it too.

Today I smashed it and even walked backwards. So is it a 3.6 if you don't know science fiction movies, or is it the tricky words that could fall into different categories? I'm not sure.

I saw Matrix, Dune and Gravity straight away. It took a few times to get it to work, but I knew there was something sci-fi-y about it. When we saw “Thing and Fly,” we clicked on “The” and we were able to see “The Abyss,” “The Fly,” “The Matrix,” and “The Thing,” all great movies.

I didn't jump on it, but I was looking for a potential banking category in banking, exchange, and import and trade. It didn't quite fit and felt forced. But then I noticed mound and thought about baseball, which led me to putting bench and starting side by side, which led to the trade and draft. So fantasy sports. I thought about regular exercise, but we'll take it.

Then the green category was added with gravity, meaning, substance and weight.

Eventually we ended up with a “high ground” of escarpments, dunes, hills and hills.

Today I didn't have to stare blankly at the grid, which was a relief.

Yesterday's Connections answers

Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #473, which according to the had a difficulty rating of 2.6 out of 5 Connection companion.

I'm not going to lie, I stared at this grid for a long time before I found the answers.

I rarely use the shuffle feature, mostly because I don't always find it helpful. Today it saved my bacon.

The confusion caused theory and beans to fall side by side. That brought me to (string) theory and (string) beans. Bikini was nearby and I had to go in search of cheese from there.

At one point in my viewing I was dry, neat and virginal and for some reason never saw straight. This time I found it and knocked it down blue.

And then I stared again. It didn't click today.

I made a few attempts at putting the trim, fringe, wax and ruffles together before finally settling on the trim, ruffles, fringe and trim.

This made me grow, grow, grow and grow. I came across a definition here that I forgot that growing technically means to grow or increase. Hence the waxing moon.

Some days, the mystery in Dune flows like spices. Today it was banging its head against the wall, waiting for my brain to make connections I couldn't see.

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