NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Sunday, October 6 (game #483)

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

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NYT Connections today (game #483) - today's words

Today's NYT Connections words are…

• SHED
• CREAM
• RETREAT
• ABOUT
• COTTAGE
• LOGIN
• HOME
• SCRATCH
• KNEAD
• GOAT
• LEAVE
• STRING
• FLEE
• PURR
• CONTACT
• WITHDRAW

NYT Connections today (game #483) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• Yellow: Go away
• Green: Feline things
• Blue: Privacy is often another
• Purple: Blank [dairy food]

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #483) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: TURN TAIL
• GREEN: THINGS CATS DO
• BLUE: PAGES ON A WEBSITE
• PURPLE: ___ CHEESE

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #483) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #483, are…

• YELLOW: TURN TAIL FLEE, LEAVE, RETREAT, WITHDRAW
• GREEN: THINGS CATS DO KNEAD, PURR, SCRATCH, SHED
• BLUE: PAGES ON A WEBSITE ABOUT, CONTACT, HOME, LOGIN
• PURPLE: ___ CHEESE COTTAGE, CREAM, GOAT, STRING

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

I like cats, I like cheese and I work on a website, so I was in a good place to solve today's Connections, which featured all three as groups. That said, it was the yellow TURN TAIL group with FLEE, LEAVE, RETREAT and WITHDRAW that I solved first, perhaps unsurprisingly given that it was pretty straightforward and consisted only of synonyms.

The others were technically more difficult. Green – THINGS CATS DO – did occur to me early on, on account of PURR and SCRATCH. KNEAD made sense too, but I couldn't find a fourth. I nearly guessed CREAM or STRING as things associated with cats, but they didn't quite fit with the other three. And then eventually I realized that SHED could be a verb, too, at which point it all fell into place.

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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 5 October, game #482)

• YELLOW: STEAK CUTS FILET, HANGER, SKIRT, T-BONE
• GREEN: KINDS OF UNDERWEAR BIKINI, G-STRING, HIPSTER, THONG
• BLUE: INVOLVED IN A DENTIST VISIT DRILL, SINK, TOOTHBRUSH, X-RAY
• PURPLE: BRANDS THAT HAVE BECOME GENERIC TERMS CHAPSTICK, JACUZZI, Q-TIP, XEROX

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.