Today's NYT Connection Tip, Answers for September 3, #450

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Need answers to the New York Times Connections puzzle? To me, Wordle is a vocabulary test, while Connections is a brain teaser. You're given 16 words and asked to sort them into four groups that have some kind of connection. Some words are obvious, but our games editor Wyna Liu knows how to trick you with words that fit into multiple groups. Read below for today's Connections hints and answers.

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How to play Connection

Easy to play, hard to win. Look at 16 words and mentally assign them to four related groups. Click on four words that you think go together. The groups are color coded, but you won't know what goes where until you see the answer. Yellow groups are the easiest, then green, blue, and purple are the hardest. Look carefully at the words and think about related terms. Sometimes the connections have to do with parts of words. Once, four words were grouped together because they each started with the name of a rock band. These include “Rushmore” and “Journeyman.”

Today's Connection Group Tip

Here are four grouping tips for today's Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest, the yellow group, to the more difficult (and sometimes weird), the purple group.

Yellow group tips: forgive.

Green Group Tips: That's too much.

Blue Group Tips: It's like a dollar, but it's different.

Purple Group Tips: It accompanies the word that denotes the head.

Answers to Today's Connection Group

Yellow Group: Exempt.

Green Group: Excessively.

Blue Group: Global currency.

Purple Group: ____head.

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What's the answer for Connections today?

Today's Connections in yellow letters

The theme is “forgiveness” and the four answers are excuse, pardon, relief and forgiveness.

Today's Connection Green Words

The theme is “excess.” There are four answers: “beyond,” “extra,” “over,” and “too.”

Today's Connection in blue

The theme is world currencies. The answer is pound, real, won, and yen.

Today's Connection Purple Words

The theme is “____head”. The answers are “arrow”, “block”, “forehand”, and “knuckle”.