Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 4, 2024 (Puzzle #450)

Planning to absolutely crush today's Connections puzzle but having a hard time solving it? Don't worry, as we have all the hints, tricks, and tips you need to keep your head as you finish the puzzle. While today's categories may not be the most difficult, there is some interesting word usage to make you second guess yourself.

If you love a challenge, try out the NYT Letter Boxed puzzle that changes daily just like Connections. To me, it is one of the harder puzzles, and can test my limits as I attempt to solve it. Trying to figure out the best order to use all the letters around the box while being unable to use letters on the same sides is a complex challenge that I greatly enjoy when I want to test myself.

Today's Connections Category Hints

SEPTEMBER 04 #450

If you want a few hints for today's puzzle and particularly the categories involved, you are in the right place. Here are four hints that correspond to all four categories:

• One category is about a microscopic size
• One category is about first purchases for a new addition
• One category is about a celebration
• One category is about something you see every day

If that is not enough, there are other options that we have provided below. The first is the actual category names, and the second is the full answers with some commentary on them.

	VERY SMALL MOUNT
	PUPPY PURCHASES
	HELP PUT ON A PARTY
	SYMBOLS ON A KEYBOARD

Today's Connections Answers

SEPTEMBER 04 #450

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

If you want a very small amount of something, it is but a HINT of peppermint, a SHRED of parmesan, a TOUCH of salt, a TRACE of poison - maybe not that one though. These are all cooking-related metaphors, but that's what happens when you play Connections on an empty stomach.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

If you are getting a pet for the first time, these are the items you will likely be purchasing. A warm, cozy BED, and big BOWL for crunchies, a COLLAR so no one steals your baby, and a CRATE to keep them comfortable while you are away or while traveling to important vet visits. Interestingly enough, this category got my attention first despite never having a puppy myself.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

If you want to plan a party, there are a lot of different words you can use to describe the process. CATER is fairly specific to a food-related business or planning, but beyond that these are all fairly synonymous. Or, at least, I have heard all of these used frequently enough that I got this category early on when working to solve it. I think it's due to my grandma's propensity to be a party animal.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

I like to say I'm fairly familiar with keyboards and typing since it is a main part of my job every day. Given that, I did not recognize the words used to describe some of these symbols. CARET was a new one for me, specifically, and I don't know what I called that key but maybe I just never knew a name for it.

I always thought of it as an arrow. BRACE is likely a shortened form of "brackets". HASH is more commonly referred to as "pound" (or hashtag in social media) while on a keyboard I have always called the STAR key an "asterisk."

Other Games Like Connections

If you are like me and are staring at your keyboard wondering if you just missed something in your typing classes, if you were lucky enough to have some, then you may as well stare at it productively and play one of the following puzzles: