Tips and Answers for Today’s Connections for October 14, 2024 (Puzzle #490)

If you’re trying to make sense of today’s words Connections puzzles and struggling to put them together, you’re lucky you made it here. We have hints and tips to help you not lose it. Each Connections puzzle has many potential pitfalls, but if you’re trying to avoid them, our tips and tricks can help.

If you like Connections, you’ll probably also like NYT. Tile puzzle. It’s about finding matches and in some ways it’s very similar to a matching game, e.g. Go fishing. In this case, you compete with yourself and the computer unlike the enemy. Achieve higher scores with each new puzzle and new higher score. You will have to make many matches to make this streak grow and grow.

Tips for Today’s Connections categories

OCTOBER 14 #490

In today’s puzzle, a significant number of words can be nouns or verbs, making it difficult to recognize the correct meaning. With proper deductive reasoning, you can begin to separate words and build different categories. Today we can help you figure it out, giving you the right hints and, if necessary, spoilers.

• One category is dedicated to putting things in order.
• One category is dedicated to specific noises that a natural phenomenon makes.
• One category is dedicated to how you can style something.
• One category is about four things, each of which can have a foliage type.

Once you take a look at the clues and start trying to figure them out, you may still end up stumped. If you do this, we Do you still have clues that will help you finish this task?.

	SWARM
	SOUNDS OF THUNDER
	WAYS TO WEAR YOUR HAIRSTYLE
	THINGS THAT LEAVES MAY HAVE

Today’s answers to questions about connections

OCTOBER 14 #490

Yellow Answers: Revealed and Explained

If you need to dig into something, you probably DIG into it. ROOT can connect plants to the ground, but it can also mean digging, especially if you are trying to get to the bottom. SIFT can mean many things, but to an archaeologist existence the ability to sift through dirt is one of my favorite values and something I did quite a lot. Finally, combing something can mean using a hair comb, but it also has another meaning.

Green Answers: Revealed and Explained

It took me a second to realize this because I had kind of forgotten that the word PEAL existed. It’s a good word and should probably add a little more to my vocabulary than it already has. I was more aware of THUNDER and ROLL and grouped them together from the start before adding CLAP as another loud noise. It wasn’t until I finished this category that I realized that they were all there should have been words specifically about thunderbut it made sense as a loud noise category without that specification.

Blue Answers: Revealed and Explained

When I saw BRAID and TWIST, I thought they were probably a match and started looking for other options. I didn’t find anything about rope or any other “twisty” words that would lean more towards the verb category, so I looked at BUN and I thought it might be different hairstyles. It took me too long to add PONY to the mix, but that was because it was missing the crucial “tail” that would have tipped me off earlier. That being said, I’m still glad that I was able to solve this problem no matter what.

Purple Answers: Revealed and Explained

Finally, I was leaning towards this category but wasn’t sure about it. I saw BOOK and TREE before and thought it might be something about things made or made of paper. which in the end turned out to be almost correctbut when I returned to these words at the end, it did not immediately make sense, since I introduced the last guess. Seeing it makes more sense now and I’m a little angry about how close I was. However, I can’t be angry that I solved it correctly and got the win.

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If you need another puzzle to fill the void now that you’re done Connections puzzle, check Crossword to get a fun crossover task it’s all about words.