Today's Connections Clues and Answers for October 17, 2024 (Puzzle No. 493)

If you are stuck in today's world Acquaintances puzzle, you might want to park here and consider the tips we have for you. Today's puzzle has some nuances that may be difficult to detect, as well as a difficult starting category. If you need help navigating these potential issues, there are plenty of ways we can guide you through the choppy waters, with tips, tricks, and spoilers at the end.

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Today's Connection Tips

October 17 #354

In today's tricky puzzle, players will look for synonyms, pop culture references and guess the last word in a sentence. Personally, I like it when there is a lot of variety in wa Acquaintances a puzzle and this puzzle seems like this strikes the right balance between variety and some difficult words that can surprise you if you're not careful. With this in mind, to help you avoid these difficult words, here are four tips to help you:

  • One category is for a specific type of outdoor space
  • One category concerns actions a person can take to solve a problem
  • One category concerns popular mobile media titles
  • One category includes four words that share a common word in a sentence – this common word can be used to refer to a government department

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If you want to expand on these tips further, we've got it all four category names ready for you to look at it.

The yellow Connections game bar

GRASSY AREA

The green Connections game bar

COPING WITH

Blue Connections game bar

MOVIES WITH THE “S” REMOVED.

The purple Connections game bar

___ LAW

Answers to today's calls

October 17 #493

Field at Connections Answers on October 17

Yellow answers: revealed and explained

The yellow Connections game bar

GRASSY AREA

GREEN

LAWN

PARK

COURTYARD

I love beautiful grassy areas, especially if there are pretty wildflowers involved as well. However, the most difficult part of this category is the word FIELD. In my experience, this is a much more common word for this type of space, and it can be difficult to decide which of the five possible words to cut. My main advice and what I did was to look at each word and see what else it might mean. Ultimately, both Field and PARK were potential candidates for the cut, and I happened to guess correctly.

Green Answers: Revealed and Explained

The green Connections game bar

COPING WITH

ADDRESS

ANSWER

FIELD

HANDLE

This becomes more obvious when you remove FIELD from the previous category. ADDRESS and ANSWER already seemed to go together, and FIELD now needs to go here. Moving on, most of the other words have the same character and cannot be used in the form of a verbleaving HANDLE and taking fourth and final place. This is a case where the first category solution really helped and even led me to the second category solution.

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Blue Answers: Revealed and Explained

Blue Connections game bar

MOVIES WITH THE “S” REMOVED.

CAR

GOOD FELLA

JAW

SWINGER

I'm usually quite confident when it comes to movie categories, but today I wasn't fooled. This category was much more difficult for me than usual because I simply didn't recognize that these were films without full titles. I'm stuck on HARVARD's GOODFELLA for a few reasons. However, this was the case in this category rather a lack of context and a failure to recognize the missing element. If you're having difficulty, try saying the words in slightly different ways to see if it rings a bell.

Purple Answers: Revealed and Explained

The purple Connections game bar

___ LAW

CRIMINAL

HARVARD

CITRIC

NATURAL

Even though I was pretty sure three of those words went together, LEMON wasn't what I had in mind. I thought GOODFELLA made a lot more sense as a potential law-related name, but LEMON's Law was not something I had heard of before. But I know what it means and I can recognize it if something goes wrong when I make a big purchase. So Acquaintances taught me a valuable lesson today, even if I didn't see it at the time.

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Name the country based on its silhouette and some geographical clues.

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acquaintances

Released
June 12, 2023
Developer(s)
New York Times Company
Publisher(s)
New York Times Company
ESRB
me
Platform(s)
Web Browser, Portable