Today's Connections Hints & Answers For October 17, 2024 (Puzzle #493)

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If you find yourself stuck in today’s puzzle, you might want to park here and consider the clues we have for you. Today’s puzzle has some nuances that might be hard to spot,as well as a tricky starting category. If you want help navigating these potential problems, there are plenty of ways we can guide you through the turbulent waters with clues, tips, and some spoilers at the end.

If you like, you should play a daily puzzle called . It is a game that is both consistent and constantly changing. While the basic rules you must follow are always the same, the solution will change, and you will have to adapt. The problems you attempt to solve include solving the daily and ensuring the numbers in the password all add up to a certain total. It is a good way to create a challenge for yourself and allows you to play with numbers and words.

In today’s crafty puzzle, players will find themselves looking for synonyms, hunting for pop culture references, and figuring out the last word in a phrase. I personally like it when there is a lot of variance in a puzzle, and this puzzle feels like it hits the right balance between variety and a few tricky words that can stump you if you are not careful. With that in mind, to help you avoid those tricky words, here are four clues to help you out:

The Tiles game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to use various strategies to pair matching visual patterns together to build huge combos.

If you want to expand on those clues further, we haveall four category names ready for you to peek at.

GRASSY AREA

DEAL WITH

MOVIES WITH «S» REMOVED

___ LAW

GRASSY AREA

GREEN

LAWN

PARK

YARD

I love a beautiful grassy area, especially if nice wildflowers are also involved. However,the tricky part of this category is the word FIELD. In my experience, it is a much more common word used to mean this kind of space, and it can be hard to decide which of the five possible words to cut. My main advice, and what I did, was to look at each word and see