Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For October 27, 2024 (Puzzle #504)

If you feel that the quality of your answers in today’s Connections puzzle is not up to par and you are running out of guesses, there are a few ways we can help you salvage the day and complete the puzzle. Today’s puzzle has some fun references, but they also might get you in trouble if you are not paying close enough attention. To help keep you out of trouble, we have everything you need to keep you on track and to finish the puzzle well.

If you still want to test your mettle today, you can always try the daily NYT Wordle puzzle. There are still many, many five-letter words the puzzle has not used yet, meaning there are plenty more of these puzzles in your future for you to solve. With a new word every day and lots of letter combinations to try, you will want to use the best starting guess that you can to get all the information possible out of the hints.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

OCTOBER 27 #504

Avoiding traps and staying away from distractions is the best way to handle any Connections puzzle. To that end, there are a couple of potential distractions here, but it is easier to avoid if you are looking at the right information instead. In helping you focus on the right parts of the puzzle, we have four clues for you to guide you in the direction you need to go.

• One category is about a character trait
• One category is not about a television show
• One category is about different words that are used to denote how much of something you have
• One category is about four stories with very similar titles

If those clues were not enough, there are other ways to steer you on the path to victory. The first of which will be all four category names shown in the table below to help you determine where the words fit best.

Today’s Connections Answers

OCTOBER 27 #504

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

I solved this one last and I genuinely do not think I would have put these four words together even knowing the category name. Perhaps I would have eventually, but I’m not sure I have heard all of these words in a “sassy” context before. I have heard WISE and SMART in phrases where I would connect those dots. CUTE and FRESH sort of ring a bell, but that is not my first instinct concerning those words and I wouldn’t have put them in that category, at least not without way overthinking it first.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

QUALITY does fit in this category, but I feel like it is a little more awkward here than the other words. FEELING, AIR, and MOOD all make sense together, although I did not see it right away. I tunneled in on the harder categories first today, but once I got to this category, it was easier for me to see this grouping than it was the “easiest” one. Even then, I was not certain that my guess would be correct, but fortunately today it was.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

When my puzzle first loaded, FRESH PRINCE BEL AIR was the first row I saw and I did laugh a little. It was also too easy, and I figured it was meant to be a distraction. Looking around, my eyes settled on LUX, which I am more familiar with in other languages. However, it is a measurement of light, and I was fairly certain MOLE might be a measurement too. Looking around, BAR and BEL were the only other likely candidates, and it turned out I was right about all of these words being measurements.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

Somehow, I solved this category second, although it was not because I knew exactly what was going on. Rather, with BEL gone, these were the only nouns left that could mean people and they were also all something that featured in children’s animation. It shows that sometimes your instincts are right when your reasoning is wrong with these puzzles. Ironically, TRAMP here is actually referencing a much older Charlie Chaplin film and not the cartoon. A film that is really titled The Tramp most often and only occasionally referenced with “little,” as I found out.

Other Games Like Connections

Once you, like me, have decided whether it was cheating to use a title that is not actually used in practice for a film in today’s puzzle, you can move on to try one of the other puzzles listed below.