Today's Connections Hints & Answers For September 15, 2024 (Puzzle #461)

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If you want your score a win in today, you're going to need a little extra help. These puzzles do their best to keep the real answers secret, giving you false clues and making you think you are wrong. Your score will dwindle if you guess wrong, so check out some tips and tricks to keep you afloat.

The first NYT puzzle to take the world by storm was the daily puzzle, which asks you to use the same logic as you do in The main difference is that asks you to do so with smaller building blocks. You are attempting to put letters together to form a word instead of putting words together to form a category. Both, however, will test your dictionary knowledge quite a lot.

To avoid losing in, you will have to figure out what kind of categories you are working with. That is the first step, and as such, our first clue for you is actually four different clues about each of the categories.

The Letter Boxed game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to connect letters to form words while using various strategies to win quickly.

After you attempt to parse out those clues in reference to the puzzle, if you still find yourself needing a nudge, all category names are listed below:

RESIDE

DECREASE

DOOFUS

MEMBER OF A SEPTET

RESIDE

DWELL

INHABIT

LIVE

STAY

This one was a little easier today, as none of the other words seemed to have the same connotation. All of these words I felt were safe enough to guess together as residing somewhere. DWELL is perhaps the biggest potential false trail here, as there are three other words with the «DW» beginning. This could be a category in other circumstances, but it is not in this particular circumstance.

DECREASE

DECLINE

DROP

DWINDLE

EBB

There is a fairly good theme here, with one of those DW words in here as well in the form of DWINDLE. DECLINE, DROP, and EBB all felt very similarly to me, with EBB being perhaps the least similar. It's more of a potential flow than it is a full decrease, but it was enough to make me guess this one.