Looking for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on October 30 for puzzle #507 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3.1 out of 5.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers. And if the hints aren't enough, you'll find all 4 answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words. Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #506, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #507. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Upswing
- 🟩 Green: Things with wheels
- 🟦 Blue: Kinds of tape
- 🟪 Purple: Retail chains with a letter changed
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Here's a larger hint: Look through your tool box for tape, check out the wheels, consider your graphs and get some shopping in.
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #507?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Upswing: Boom, rise, spike, surge
- 🟩 Things with wheels: Dolly, rollerblade, skateboard, wagon
- 🟦 Kinds of tape: Duct, electrical, gaffer, packing
- 🟪 Retail chains with a letter changed: Best boy, Idea, Kroner, Stables
I got caught in the trap of crew roles on a movie set as I took a strike trying to make gaffer, best boy, dolly and boom happen.
I was able to move on quickly to the green grouping snagging rollerblade, skateboard, wagon and dolly.
Yellow was an easy snag from there with boom, rise, spike and surge.
Here it was finally revealed to me that blue was all about tapes with duct tape, electrical tape, gaffer tape and packing tape. If you're an Adam Savage fan he highly recommends gaffer tape over duct tape every day of the week.
From there we got to the rote fill of slightly tweaked retail chains with Best Bo(u)y, Id(k)ea, Kron(g)er, and Stab(p)les. Cute, I guess.
Yesterday's Connections answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #506, which had a difficulty rating of 3.8 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
I saw the 3.8 difficulty rating and was admittedly a bit intimidated today and then I saw countryman and Roman. My Shakespeare bells went a ringing. From there it was trying to remember the line from the 'Julius Caesar' play which did take a second.
Here's the line which actually says 'countrymen' not man, spoken by Marc Antony in Act 3: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..."
Knocking out blue early helped make this puzzle a bit easier than the rated number.
Green's medical roles stuck out to me, but that may be because I grew up in a medical family. This one had attending, fellow, intern and residents, different levels of doctors from training to career.
We finally get to the yellow grouping here and mint and original made me think of baseball cards. I briefly considered perfect as that can be a rating but decided against it and went with unused and new instead. It worked.
Purple is a fun fill with perfect square, pocket square, Times Square and town square.
