NYT Connections Today – Tips and Answers for Saturday, September 14 (Game No. 461)

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that requires you to sort answers into different categories. This can be tricky, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do when you’re done? Play some word games, of course. I also have daily articles with tips and answers for Wordle, Strands and Quordle if you need help with those too.

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

Your Connections Expert

Marc McLaren

NYT Connections today (Game No. 461) – the words of the day

NYT gives answers for game 461 on purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The words of NYT Connections today are…

LION
SWITCH
RETRO
CITIZENS
VINTAGE
Subtitles
Prom
SLIDER
SUPER
GRAPE
BUTTON
CALIFORNIA
REGION
BUTTON
PER
WINERY

NYT Connections Today (Game #461) – Clue #1 – Group Clues

What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: Read the label
Green: Touch this
Blue: They go ahead
Purple: Blank (royal title)

Need more advice?

Now we’re moving into the spoiler zone, but read on if you want to know the four topic answers for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections Today (Game #461) – Clue #2 – Group Answers

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

YELLOW: WINE BOTTLE INFO
GREEN: CONSOLE INPUTS
BLUE: PREFIXES
PURPLE: ___ KING

That’s right, the answers are below, SO DON’T SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (Game No. 461) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 461 on purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections Game No. 461 are…

YELLOW: WINE BOTTLE INFO GRAPE, REGION, VINTAGE, WINERY
GREEN: CONSOLE INPUTS BUTTON, KNOB, SLIDER, SWITCH
BLUE: PREFIXES PRO, RETRO, SUB, SUPER
PURPLE: ___ KING BURGER, CALIFORNIA, LION, PROM

My rating: Simply
My result: 2 errors

Today’s Connections group is also pretty simple. First of all, it doesn’t require too much technical knowledge – KEY, BUTTON, SLIDER and SWITCH, for example, are just common words. And while the WINE BOTTLE INFO group may be easier for wine drinkers, the answers are all remotely off-the-wall.

The puzzle I didn’t technically solve was blue – which in hindsight was one of the easiest. This group was made up of PREFIXES, with the answers being PRO, SUB, RETRO and SUPER – all of which I should have thought of. But instead I focused on the (empty) king group after spotting BURGER, LION and PROM. The problem was I couldn’t find the fourth one, so I guessed SUPER and PRO (randomly) before finally settling on CALIFORNIA to complete the set. I don’t know what a CALIFORNIA KING is, but I solved it in the end, so who cares…

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.

Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Friday, September 13, Game #460)

YELLOW: VITALITY Energy, Juice, Life, Zip
GREEN: PALINDROME WITH “E” LEVEL, PEP, REFERENCE, PRINCIPLE
BLUE: FEATURED IN “Jack and the Beanstalk” BEANS, COW, GIANT, JACK
PURPLE: CAR MODELS Beetle, Civic, Focus, Volt

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games from the New York Times. You have to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a bit harder, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.

The upside is that you don’t technically have to solve the final puzzle, as you can solve it by process of elimination. Plus, you’re allowed to make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little wiggle room.

It is a bit more complicated than Wordle, however, and has many ways to trick you. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that could obscure the answers.

It can be played for free on desktop or mobile via the NYT Games site.

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