NYT ‘Connections’ October 30: Clues and Answers for Game #507

We might be nearing the scariest night of the spooky season, but that doesn’t mean today’s Connections puzzle has to give you the frights.

Newsweek is here every day to give you the best hints to solve the daily game and clever strategies to ensure you keep up your winning streak.

How to Play Connections

If you’ve never played Connections before, the rules of the game are easy to get the hang of.

To begin, players are given a table of 16 words. These are split into four groups of four based on common characteristics and placed into categories. The categories vary in difficulty from yellow to green to blue to purple, with yellow considered the easiest category and purple considered the trickiest.

For example, a recent game linked the words “braid,” “bun,” “pony” and “twist” under the category “Ways to wear your hair up.” This was a blue category.

Once you’ve selected four words, you click the “Submit” button. If your choices are correct, they’ll appear in the category color and disappear from the grid. If they are incorrect, however, they will remain gray in color and stay on the board.

If you’re stuck, try selecting the “Shuffle” button to move the words to a different place on the grid. This may just give you the refresh you were looking for.

Below are some hints to help you solve today’s Connections, which is rated 3.1 out of 5 for difficulty. But be warned, the answers appear further down in this article, so scroll with caution if you want to work them out yourself.

‘Connections’ #507 Clues for Wednesday, October 30

Newsweek is here with some hints to help you identify Wednesday’s Connections categories:

Yellow: Words that mean an uptick in something.

Green: Items that have circular objects mounted on them to allow them to move.

Blue: Different types of a material that we use to stick things together.

Purple: Well-known stores that are spelled with one little difference.

‘Connections’#507 Answers for Wednesday, October 30

Yellow category: UPSWING

Yellow words: Boom, Rise, Spike, Surge

Green category: THINGS WITH WHEELS

Green words: Dolly, Rollerblade, Skateboard, Wagon

Blue category: KINDS OF TAPE

Blue words: Duct, Electrical, Gaffer, Packing

Purple category: RETAIL CHAINS WITH A LETTER CHANGED

Purple words: Best Boy, Idea, Kroner, Stables

Did you work out the answers? If so, congratulations; if not, don’t be put off. Practice makes perfect, and the next Connections puzzle will be published on Thursday.

Connections is released at midnight in your local time zone, and Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips tomorrow.

In the meantime you could try your hand at another popular New York Times‘ game, Wordle, for which Newsweek also provides daily hints.