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1.Today’s hints

2.Today’s answer

3.Yesterday’s answer

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NYTimes Connections

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Today’s Connections answers

So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #494?

NYTimes Connections

Drumroll, c’mon…

I saw Goodfella and immediately started hunting for other movies.

I took a couple strikes on the yellow category because I held on to field for too long.

NYTimes Connections

We had yard, lawn and green to start.

Ended up swapping green for park but kept field.

To get around that I moved on and saw Harvard and Criminal near each other.

NYTimes Connections

This led to law, which helped find lemon and natural.

Which helped me to see address, answer, field and handle for the green category.

From there we were able to correct our mistakes on the yellow category.

NYT Strands on a cellphone

Yesterday’s Connections answers

Reading this in a later time zone?

Round was quickly spotted from there.

I debated Bye for Bye Round but nothing else fit, so we got the green category.

A person holding a Nintendo Switch 2 playing Mario Kart World

The others are vague enough but Cheerio really stuck out.

The title is 9 words long and only three of them are less than four letters.

Anywho, peace and two stuck out to me.

The cover of the upcoming Star Wars: Outlaws video game

From there I got scissors.

Victory was last because I briefly blocked out that people do that to signal victory.

Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo Switch 2 console in handheld mode on a blue background

Sebastian De Souza as Garrett and Sofia Carson as Alex in "The Life List" on Netflix

Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World

Motorola Razr 2024 Review.

a photo of a woman doing tricep dips on a chair