I'm looking for a connection today The 459/9/12 connection answer for Puzzle # has significantly reduced difficulty compared to yesterday's answer, and the Connection Companion has rated the difficulty of this puzzle as 5 out of 32

Every day we update this article with connection tips and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers If the hint is not enough, you can find all the 4 answers below, with words that correlate with the title of the category Additionally, it includes reflections on yesterday's puzzle, #458, in case you're reading this in a different time zone

Spoilers are ahead for connection #459 Read only if you want to know the answer for today's connection  

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Unlike our guide to Wordle answers today we recommend the best Wordle Start word as your strategy, solving the connection relies on identifying the category to connect between 16 words The difficulty of each category is represented by color, yellow is the easiest grouping and purple is the most challenging If you make 4 mistakes in your guess, the tips may help, as the answer will be revealed

If you need tips to solve grouping, there are each theme based on the order of difficulty

These tips should get at least some way to find the answer for today's connection Or scroll further down if you just want to know the answer

Here's a bigger tip: Bookmark this page while remembering some guys from the NBA past (and present 1) before removing the characters to make Greek characters and never get hungry for Japanese cuisine

So what is today's connection answer for game #459

Drum roll, please

Yesterday's 4 was a breeze, today's 32 was a struggle, but this is definitely my own fault

I kicked into the Japanese cuisine category with confidence by combining sake, Kobe, mochi and curry Strike One

The problem for me is that I keep reading sake as a Japanese alcoholic beverage and be careful as "Pete's Sake", which I now know well to double-check my first category answers to see if they fit better somewhere else "It's on me

After Strike One, we saw birds and magic almost immediately So putting those NBA legends in Kobe (Boo) and Curry was an easy task

Next, I moved to the yellow category with bookmarks, Favorites, Likes, and saves

Here I was holding liquor as a drink, so I started a strike I had benefits, benefits and interests After taking a few strikes, leaving me one, I finally succumbed to sake and put it here for the green category I'm not sure if advantage will work in this category, but who will comment at this point

I have mentioned before that my most favorite type of purple category is the one you need to delete the letter to see it Possible Today's hidden Greeks did not love me in the category, it remains at the bottom of my personal ranking

In any case, this was (b) iota, (f) eta, mo(chi), and pe(psi) 

Read this later in the time zone According to Connections Companion, Connections answers for game #4 out of 5 with a difficulty rating of 457 are:

After a few consecutive days where the puzzle sits at a difficulty of 33, today leapt straight to four Does it match that difficulty?

Much of today is based on idioms and slang, and if you don't know or have never heard of it, it can make it more difficult Personally, I found it easier today than yesterday

Kicking it off, we had slang and yellow categories for a lot of money; bundles, fortune, mint and pile 

It is appropriate that the purple category is full of purple-colored items such as amethyst, eggplant, grimace (of McDonald's fame) and lavender

I saw the blue connection while putting together the purple category and decided to save it for myself This meant digging up nuggets, pearls, kernels and greens for a bite of wisdom

Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movies of all time, so it was a nice capper to a day with Amber, dinosaurs, mosquitoes and paleontologists

The question with today's answer is whether you are knowledgeable enough to make it the hardest puzzle of the week so far