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Hints for Connections #476
Try sorting the words before opening the answer key. These category nudges reveal the themes without listing the complete sets:
- Ways to make good on a promise.
- Items associated with a bed.
- Things you might do during a card game.
- U.S. federal departments.
Two potentially confusing words are sham and throw: both belong to the bedding group here. A sham is a decorative pillow covering, while a throw is a small blanket.
Answers for Connections #476
The full groups and their words are below.
Make good on, as a promise
- Fulfill
- Honor
- Keep
- Uphold
Bedding
- Blanket
- Sham
- Sheet
- Throw
Actions in card games
- Discard
- Draw
- Pass
- Play
Cabinet departments
- Energy
- Justice
- Labor
- State
How to replay the puzzle
The New York Times Help Center says All Access and Games Subscribers can play archived Connections puzzles, with the archive reaching back to June 12, 2023. Archive history requires a NYT account. Playing archived puzzles affects some completion statistics, but not current or maximum streaks. See the NYT Help Center’s Connections archive guidance for current access details.
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What the archives say about the date
Two puzzle archives identify these four groups as #476 and place it on September 29, 2024. TechRadar’s archive index also reflects the one-day numbering difference: September 30 corresponds to #477. The answer key above therefore follows #476, not the date in the original title.
No attributable, puzzle-specific solve-rate statistic is established for #476. General Connections statistics should not be mistaken for a figure about this puzzle.
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