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NYT Connections Hints October 2, 2024 #479

Get NYT Connections Hints for October 2, 2024. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #479, including word connections and hidden categories.

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Yellow Group Hints October 2, 2024

JOKER: Why so serious? Maybe the Joker is the only sane one, laughing at how seriously we take our meaningless routines.

Hint One

πŸ‘ˆ

When you put something on the line

Hint Two

Taking a calculated leap of faith

Hint Three

Put on the line

Green Group Hints October 2, 2024

SLOT MACHINE: You think you're playing the slot machine, but perhaps the slot machine is playing you, one coin at a time.

Hint One

πŸ‘ˆ

Ways to transform ingredients

Hint Two

Breaking things into smaller pieces

Hint Three

Use a kitchen knife

Blue Group Hints October 2, 2024

SHIVA: Shiva dances to destroy the universe, but maybe destruction is just renovation on a cosmic scale.

Hint One

πŸ‘ˆ

Classic movies with intense themes

Hint Two

Movies featuring morally ambiguous characters

Hint Three

Robert de niro films

Purple Group Hints October 2, 2024

RISK: The biggest risk is spending your life avoiding risks, only to risk having not lived at all.

Hint One

πŸ‘ˆ

Entities associated with various arms or limbs

Hint Two

Notable figures or objects with distinctive physical forms

Hint Three

Distinctive number of arms (or lack thereof)

Get NYT Connections Answers October 2, 2024 #479

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Yellow Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Put on the line

BET
CHANCE
GAMBLE
RISK

Green Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Use a kitchen knife

CUBE
DICE
JULIENNE
SLICE

Blue Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Robert de niro films

CASINO
HEAT
JOKER
TAXI DRIVER

Purple Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Distinctive number of arms (or lack thereof)

OCTOPUS
SHIVA
SLOT MACHINE
VENUS DE MILO