Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For October 22, 2024 (Puzzle #499)

Instead of getting bingo, you will be looking to create four rows of pastel colors if you win today’s Connections puzzle. This can be hard to achieve if you do not know what to look for, and three of the categories today can be a little hard to differentiate if you are missing vital information. It may take some patience, but you can get through the puzzle if you move with caution instead of too quickly.

If you like playing word games, you might like figuring out the daily Mini Crossword puzzle. It has all the fun of the bigger version with the advantage of it being a lot smaller. The puzzle will always be a 5×5 grid with clues for each column and row. If you manage to work out the right words, you will have a filled-in square with the satisfaction of figuring out what the clues were alluding to.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

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Vikings in Connections Categories October 22

If you want to succeed at today’s Connections puzzle, you might need a few hints to help you formulate a successful plan to do so. There are words in every category that could easily be mistaken for another, which can make it easy to just guess one word off and lose the puzzle quickly. To help prevent those wrong guesses, we have some hints for you that should narrow it down. If not, keep scrolling for spoilers.

One category is about things that are often expensive
One category is about verbs that describe how a person plans things
One category is about the names of four special vehicles
One category is about four names of things that incorporate the name into their design

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If you are here looking for those spoilers, you can find them all below. We will start with giving you just the category names, before proceeding into all of the answers for each one.

	BRAND-NAME
	DEVISE
	NASA SPACECRAFT
	GAMES WHERE YOU SAY THE GAME’S NAME

Today’s Connections Answers

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Vikings in Connections Answers October 22

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

BRAND-NAME
DESIGNER	HAUTE	HIGH-END	LUXURY

This was not the first category I got today, mainly because DESIGNER could easily belong with a whole host of words in this puzzle. It took a while for me to parse out what belonged where, but this was the second category I managed to separate out. What helped me do so was looking at LUXURY and HIGH-END, which in turn led me to HAUTE and eventually back to DESIGNER. While it was difficult, it was not as impossible as it could have felt due to some of the overlapping words in this puzzle.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

DEVISE
CONCOCT	ENGINEER	HATCH	MASTERMIND

Likewise, this was the third category I got, as originally I thought DESIGNER and ENGINEER belonged together, along with MASTERMIND. While I was mostly right, I did have to think about it in a different way to see these as verbs instead of nouns. Once I did, I as able to make a bigger distinction between these words and similar ones, before adding in CONCOCT and HATCH as the final two additions. DESIGNER was able to be cut due to not being a verb like the rest, which finished off this category.

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Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

NASA SPACECRAFT
GALILEO	PIONEER	VIKING	VOYAGER

My dad would likely get this one before me, as someone who keeps up with NASA much more than I have and for much longer as well. However, I got this one last mainly due to having words like PIONEER and VOYAGER with ENGINEER and DESIGNER at first. Additionally, GALILEO was a name and I thought it might belong with MARCO POLO in a separate category. While there were no other obvious proper names, I thought it could go with VIKING or VOYAGER to talk about people who were leaders in their fields, but it was actually about spacecraft.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

GAMES WHERE YOU SAY THE GAME’S NAME
BINGO	MARCO POLO	TAG	UNO

As someone who has played most of these games extensively and knows that UNO ends relationships when it becomes too competitive, I actually got this category first. It was UNO that clued me in, before I saw BINGO and remembered playing a lot of MARCO POLO in the pool every summer – which turned out to be way more dangerous than it should have been. TAG was the last but by no means least one added in, mainly because it was hiding among much bigger words.

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