New York Times Connections Hints Today, Oct. 18th, #495

If you are looking for The New York Times Connections hints today for October 18, you have come to the right place. Connections may seem simple on the surface and much easier than what the NYT did with Wordle, but players who have actually checked it out know that is just not the case.

Despite having all of the words available, arranging them in different categories can prove to be quite challenging.

For the uninitiated, Connections is an online word game by NYT that provides the player with 16 different words, which may not seem like they are connected to one another at first glance, but they have more in common than one might think.

The objective is to divide the words into groups of four, with each group focusing on a specific theme. In case you are having a hard time with today’s Connections puzzle, we have prepared some hints to help you out for Friday, October 18.

Of course, we have also revealed all of the answers for today’s Connections puzzle at the end, so if the hints are not helping either, you can simply just head down to the solutions and save yourself some headache to prepare for tomorrow’s challenge.

These are the 16 words featured in Connections today:

With one hint allocated for each word group, here are some hints that should help you out in solving today’s Connections puzzle:

• Yellow: Unable to live up to the set expectations.
• Green: Eminem extensively told us about this in Lose Yourself.
• Blue: Possibly the most convenient approach to shopping.
• Purple: Think about a massively popular name in the digital retail industry.

If the tips above have not helped, these additional Connections hints should make today’s puzzle a whole lot easier:

• Additional Connections Hint 1: The words in the Yellow group are all what you could use to describe something you were really looking forward to but it ended up being disappointing.
• Additional Connections Hint 2: Don’t just focus on Mom’s Spaghetti for the Green group; look at the bigger theme of the song.
• Additional Connections Hint 3: The Blue group relates to instances when you just don’t have any time to go to the ATM.
• Additional Connections Hint 4: The Purple group includes words that can help you read, shop, or appreciate the beauty of nature.

Some Connections puzzles can be quite tough to solve, so if the hints above have not really made things clear, today’s word groups should help simplify them even further:

• Yellow: Clunker
• Green: Opportunity
• Blue: Non-Cash Way to Pay
• Purple: Amazon _

If you have tried your best and still not succeeded, there is not any need to worry, as we have listed down the answers below to make today’s Connections puzzle a breeze to solve:

• Clunker: Bust, Dud, Flop, Miss
• Opportunity: Chance, Shot, Time, Turn
• Non-Cash Way to Pay: Card, Charge, Credit, Plastic
• Amazon _: Kindle, Prime, Rainforest, River

While the Yellow group is quite straightforward and contains words that clearly mean similar things, the inclusion of Miss in the category could have been a cause for some confusion, considering its potential relation to missing a Chance or Shot.

On the other hand, trying to guess that the hardest Purple category referred to all things related to Amazon would have proven to be quite challenging, as while Kindle and Prime may have been easy picks, putting Rainforest and River in the same context might have been just a bit more difficult.

Similarly, Plastic, River, and Rainforest being in today’s list of words could have also hinted towards a bigger environmental issue, so realizing that only two of them are in the same group in a completely different context might have thrown some players off.

But that is what makes Connections such a fun game to play, as every day brings a new challenge for dedicated players to complete, so if you were not able to solve today’s puzzle, there is always tomorrow.

And if that gives you trouble as well, rest assured that we will have yet another guide waiting for you. However, if you did achieve success with today’s Connections puzzle, many congratulations!

While waiting and preparing for tomorrow’s puzzle, you can also go on a quick trip down memory lane and check out yesterday’s challenge again.

Which words were the most confusing for you in today’s Connections puzzle? Did you remember the opening lyrics to Eminem’s Lose Yourself to understand what the Blue group was all about? Let us know in the comments!