The October 13 edition of Connections is now available to play on the New York Times application and website. This interesting game features 16 words that players must segregate into four groups, each based on a different theme. To indicate difficulty, the groups are color-coded. Yellow is regarded as the easiest and purple the hardest.
If you get stuck midway, there’s in-game assistance and this article to guide you forward. Here are the hints, clues, and answers for today’s puzzle.
Connections hint for October 13
Today’s 16 words are as follows: Pandora’s Box, Lucky Stiff, Live Music, Golden Fleece, Good Riddance, Happy Hour, Hornet’s Nest, Comic Con, Karaoke, American Hustle, Sayonara, Minefield, Finally, Can of Worms, Trivia Night, and About Time. The hints for the group-guessing are placed below:
Yellow: This group describes situations that could prove problematic.
Green: This group refers to the occasions conducted in a pub for people to enjoy.
Blue: This group is about words or phrases to express satisfaction after someone leaves.
Purple: This category is about words that end with words meaning “to cheat or deceive”
What are the Connections answers for today, October 13?
Here are the groups and answers for today, October 13’s Connections:
Yellow: metaphors for potentially volatile situations
can of worms, hornet’s nest, minefield, Pandora’s box
Green: bar events
happy hour, karaoke, live music, trivia night
Blue: words after a welcome departure
about time, finally, good riddance, sayonara
Purple: ending with synonyms for “swindle”
american hustle, comic con, fleece, lucky stiff
The three initial groups were comparatively easier to guess, but the purple category gets a bit tricky. To solve this puzzle seamlessly, one can first segregate the words they are most confident about and know belong to a particular category. The remaining words can then be guessed and assigned to groups using in-game assistance and hints.
