NYT Connections – Tips and Answers Today – Wednesday, September 25 (#472)

Looking for today's Connections answers? The September 25 Connections answers for puzzle #472 have the same difficulty level as yesterday's answers, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty level at 3 out of 5.

Every day we update this article with Connections clues and tips to help you find all 4 answers from today. And if the clues aren't enough, you can find all 4 answers below with the category titles and the corresponding words. We also include a reflection on yesterday's puzzle #471 in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers for Connections #472 follow. Read on only if you want to know today's Connections answers.

Alternatively, you can visit our NYT Connections game guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.

Today's Connections Answer – Tips for Solving

Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer where we recommend the best Wordle seed words as a strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying categories of connections among 16 words. The difficulty level of each category is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping and purple is the most challenging. Once you make 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers are revealed, so hints can be helpful.

If you need hints on how to solve the groupings, you can find the topics of the individual groupings here, sorted by difficulty level:

🟨 Yellow: Trio of sporting successes
🟩 Green: Need to paint a room
🟦 Blue: Foods named after cities
🟪 Purple: ____ Derby

These clues should give you at least part of the answer to today's Connections question. If not, you can read on for bigger clues. If you just want to know the answer, keep scrolling down.

Here is a bigger hint: Get your threes in before you paint your room, then grab a Philly Cheesesteak or London Broil before you head to the local derby.

Today's Connections Answers

So what are today's Connections answers for game #472?

Drum roll, please…

🟨 Trio of sporting successes: Hat-trick, triple victory, triple victory, triple crown
🟩 Needs to paint a room: Tarpaulin, paint, roll, adhesive tape
🟦 Foods named after cities: Barbecue, cheesesteak, sprouts, wings
🟪 _____Derby: Demolition, Homerun, Kentucky, Soapbox Racing

I struggled yesterday, but despite the same level of difficulty, today was much easier.

We started with a hat-trick, which quickly led me to other sporting achievements based on 3: Threepeat, Trifecta, Triple Crown. Threepeat is interesting because it hasn't really been achieved in the big 5 sports, apart from the ongoing farce that is Man City in the Premier League. Yes, I'm a fan of another team in the Premier League, why do you ask?

Staying with sports, I watched Soap Box and Home Run side by side. I had a few failures when I tried to bring roller derby into the mix, but I wised up and chose Kentucky and Demolition.

Which led me to the green category with roller, tarpaulin, paint and tape.

We rounded it out with blue, which was fun with (London) broil, (Philly) cheesesteak, (Brussels) cabbage, and (Buffalo) wings in dishes named after cities.

Yesterday's Connections answers

Are you reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #471, which according to the Connections Companion.

I had one small complaint in this regard.

I started with the blue category when I saw balloon, banner, confetti and garland. An early strike caught me when I had streamers over garland. That strike gave me pause, but I came back and swapped in garland since the other three didn't fit anywhere else.

Streamer led me to the purple category, where I added influencer, model, and ambassador. While the word combination “brand ambassador” exists, I have a slight objection to ambassador in this list, especially since it's functionally the same word as influencer and doesn't represent an online personality in the same sense. Model and streamer, people who can be influencers, are at least different. If you want to get tricky, I would have chosen something like poster or moderator, which could reasonably be placed elsewhere.

From there I saw the green category with Book, Charter, Reserve and Secure. The easiest so far.

Yellow was my last category. Creative, fresh, novel and original made sense. I saw those words but don't know why I didn't associate them here until the end. I guess it's inspired, sure.

NYT Connections – Tips and Answers Today – Wednesday, September 25 (#472)

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