Today’s Connections Hints and Answers for September 12, 2024 (Riddle #458)

If you’re trying to save your Connections Strike and keep your high scores rolling, we’re here to help. There are some difficult word combinations in today’s puzzle, along with a category that requires specific cultural knowledge. These two things together can sometimes make a difficult puzzle that is difficult to save if you get stuck in one category.

If you like ConnectionsThere are plenty of other daily puzzle games that provide a similar amount of challenge and wordplay. One of the games is spelling bWhich is also published by NYT and involves Trying to come up with as many words as possible that can be made from the letters in the puzzle. The letters are aesthetically located in small hexagonal honeycombs, which create a challenging but soothing experience.

Today’s connections category hints

September 12 #458

If you’re trying to save your puzzle before you get locked out, we’ve got all the tricks you need to keep your puzzle game going. To that end, here are four separate clues that will help you solve today’s category names:

• One category is about how you manage things online
• One category is about something that is of help to someone
• One category is about stars from a certain cultural background
• One category is about words that all share something in common with their endings

These clues may not be enough for you if you just want to know that you are on the right track, so to help you, we also have all the category names listed for you:

	Mark online for later
	on behalf of
	NBA legends, familiarly
	End with Greek letters

Today’s connections answers

September 12 #458

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

Some of these things are also true offline, but this makes this category a little easier to solve than the others. All of these Words have to do with something you likeAnd so you want to save them for a time when you can digest it properly. This is also true of the regular world, as I tend to save my favorite ice cream for when I can take the time to nurture it.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

This was a bit confusing, if only because I read SAKE as a drink and not as the more normal and common word. I blame this on my puzzlement with it due to Pepsi, although that’s just an excuse. In fact, it would have been Much more to my benefit If I had raised the words a little to look at it more properly.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one will be hard If you are not invested heavily in NBA study. Although you may have heard one or two of them more often, some of them may have only been heard in passing if you are not in a sports family.

Sure, I’ve heard of all of these at least enough for it to ring a bell and I’m the least invested in sports you could be, but I would think if you can put at least two of these words together, you can Likely solve the category.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one also depends on yours Know the Greek alphabet and how each letter is spelled. It’s a little weird because the English alphabet doesn’t Indeed Spell out any letters, not often anyway, so many can’t spell out other alphabets either. Hopefully, you’ve found enough references to recognize some of them, like in sororities/fraternities or military terminology.

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