NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, September 8 (Game #455)

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be hard, so read on if you need hints.

What should you do after you’re done? Of course, you also play some word games. I also have daily Wordle Hints and Answers, Strands Hints and Answers, and Quordle Hints and Answers articles if you need help with those too.

SPOILER ALERT: Today’s NYT Connections info is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

Your connection expert

Marc McLaren

NYT Connections today (game #455) – today’s words

NYT Connections game suggestions 455 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

FROST
BEACH
PUMP
BYE BYE
RACE
BISHOP
PET SHOP
POUND
HARDY
beat
PREVIOUS
BAKE
THROB
RIVER
preheat
SHEPHERD

NYT Connections Today (Game #455) – Clue #1 – Group Clues

What are some hints for today’s NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: Cooking instructions
Verdant: Coronary actions
Blue: Religious positions
Violet: naked (not girls)

Need more hints?

We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #455) – clue #2 – group answers

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: VERBS IN THE PRACTICE RECIPE
GREEN: WHAT A HEART DOES WHEN EXCITED
BLUE: ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES
PURPLE: ___ GUYS

That’s right, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #455) – the answers

NYT Connections is responsible for the game 455 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #455, are…

YELLOW: VERBS IN THE PRACTICE RECIPE BAKE, BEAT, JELL, PRE-FREEZE
GREEN: WHAT A HEART DOES WHEN EXCITED LIRA, PUMP, STROKE, PUMP
BLUE: ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BISHOP, SHEPHERD, POPE, PRIOR
PURPLE: ___ GUYS BAD, BEACH, HARDY, PET SHOP

My rating: Moderate
My score: 2 mistakes

Today’s Connections puzzle is full of misdirection. Basically every group had a different answer that could have gone in there, and there were a few other possible connections that turned out to be dead ends. Take BEAT, BAKE, FROST, PREHEAT – which eventually made up the easiest yellow group, VERBS IN A PRACTICE RECIPE: LIRA could also have been a recipe word, and I tried this with various other combinations before getting the quartet right. And similarly, the group WHAT A HEART DOES WHEN EXCITED (green) could easily have included BEAT if it was just WHAT A HEART DOES.

Fortunately, purple was a relatively easy (empty) format today; the second I saw PET SHOP I thought “BOYS” and it wasn’t hard to identify BEACH, HARDY and BAD to form that group. Ditto the blue group ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES. So all in all not too difficult, but far from a cakewalk (even if cakes were one theme).

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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Saturday, September 7, Game #454)

YELLOW: IMAGE TRANSFORMATION MODE CUT, ROLL, ROTATE, SCALE
GREEN: THINGS USED IN GOLF BALL, DRIVER, GLOVE, TEE
BLUE: AQUARIUM PURCHASES FILTER, PUMP, ROCKS, TANK
PURPLE: LOGS WITH HORSES COACH, GODIVA, MUSTANG, POLO

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite hard, and purple usually very difficult.

Also, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, since you’ll be able to answer it through a process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.

However, it’s a bit more involved than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that could obscure the answers.

It can be played for free via the NYT Games website on desktop or mobile.

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