Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For October 8, 2024 (Puzzle #484)

The theme and mood of today’s Connections puzzle is very spooky and moody, which goes well with the month of Halloween. There are many spooky-themed words and some normal ones, which you will have to separate and decide which goes where in today’s puzzle. However, you will not be alone in this endeavor, as we have plenty of tips and tricks for you to navigate the pitfalls of this puzzle.

If you like Connections, you should try out the daily Vertex puzzle, which is all about literal connections as opposed to metaphorical ones. In this puzzle, you will be drawing lines between dots based on the number of points each dot can have. There are other clues in the puzzle to help you figure out where the lines go, as it is a very visual puzzle, and what you can see can often clue you into what’s going on.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

OCTOBER 08 #484

In the month of tricks, the puzzles are using tricks of their own to try to keep you from solving them. This can be frustrating when you don’t know how to separate the tricks from the real solution. However, with our help, you can figure out how to separate the words without too much headache, starting with these four clues:

One category is about things you can currently find plastered on store displays.
One category is about things that can’t be done.
One category is about things found on a specific type of paper.
One category is about four words that all come after a single word in a phrase – the single word is something you get instead of a trick.

If those clues are not enough to help you avoid the tricks, you can still solve the puzzle. Often, when hints are not sufficient to see through the traps, the category names are.

Today’s Connections Answers

OCTOBER 8 #484

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category was not the first one I guessed, mainly because the last category also had a lot of fall or spooky-themed words that I had to sort out first. To do so, I looked at all the possible fall words and tried to think of what they could mean instead. I realized CORN and APPLE could share a common word, and I managed to separate those words out from the others. Luckily, my initial instinct was correct for the rest of these Halloween-themed words, and often, that first instinct is the first thing you should try.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

Having solved most of the spooky situation, the words left were a little more mundane. However, what helped me was seeing BAN and FORBID close to each other, which shows that you should feel free to shuffle the puzzle to try to help you rethink your guess if you need to. Looking around, it was fairly simple to add DENY and BLOCK to the other words and finish solving this category. Seeing the words in a new spot really can help your brain when you are solving a puzzle.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This next category was the words that were left at the end of my puzzle. I played music for over ten years, and now that I see the words together, they are more obvious. For me, because I happened to solve this puzzle faster, I hadn’t even considered these words. Sometimes, you know enough information to solve the puzzle but haven’t really examined all the options, so look around when you’re struggling. If I hadn’t been as sure of my original guesses, a look around would have triggered my experience with sheet music.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

I solved this last category first as I sorted out the spooky words from the other spooky words. My brain saw CORN and immediately thought about Candy Corn, and I realized there were also Candy Apples. Finding BAR encouraged this theory, but I was a little confused at first until I saw CANE. It’s a little out of season for candy canes, but I’ll take it.

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