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Happy Friday, folks! There’s one more Connections game to enjoy before you spend your weekend drinking pumpkin spice lattes or whatever it is you whippersnappers do with your free time at the end of September.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- IMPORT
- THING
- GRAVITY
- START
- BANK
- TRADE
- MATRIX
- DUNE
- WEIGHT
- ABYSS
- DRAFT
- MOUND
- HILL
- BENCH
- FLY
- SUBSTANCE
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — more a physical land mass than a position of moral superiority
- Green group — how much something matters
- Blue group — words often bandied around by N.F.L and N.B.A. devotees at this time of year
- Purple group — examples of speculative fiction for the big screen
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — area of high ground
- Green group — significance
- Blue group — actions in fantasy sports
- Purple group — sci-fi movies, with “The”
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — area of high ground (BANK, DUNE, HILL, MOUND)
- Green group — significance (GRAVITY, IMPORT, SUBSTANCE, WEIGHT)
- Blue group — actions in fantasy sports (BENCH, DRAFT, START, TRADE)
- Purple group — sci-fi movies, with “The” (ABYSS, FLY, MATRIX, THING)
I’m back to winning ways with a perfect game. Here’s how I fared:
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I immediately clocked that there were lots of potential sci-fi movies here: THING, GRAVITY, MATRIX, DUNE, ABYSS and FLY. I was able to take out DUNE when I saw the yellows. Seeing TRADE and DRAFT next to each other helped me get the blues.
I was then sure that GRAVITY went with the greens, but I wanted to get the purple group first, so I did that, then got the green group.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. We’re adding a new game to our daily NYT Games guides tomorrow, so keep an eye out for that. 👀
P.P.S. I have yet to see The Abyss or either Dune movie, but I’d heartily recommend any of the other sci-fi movies mentioned in today’s grid. I absolutely loved Gravity when I first saw it. What a terrifying experience that would be:
