How To Solve Today's Connections - New Zealand News Beep

It’s a new day and that means a new puzzle wall to solve in the New York Times’s Connections game. If you’re looking to save your streak and only want to nail down that last pesky category, don’t worry – we have all the hints you could need.

You’ll find everything you need below, from vague hints as to what you should be looking for to the outright answers. Whether you’re looking for a nudge in the right direction or a sneaky way to preserve your blemish-free record, you’ve come to the right place.

If you’re here by mistake and instead need the answers for October 11, click here.

Category Hints

We’ll present these hints from the easiest category to the hardest, as prescribed by the puzzle itself – Yellow, Green, Blue, then Purple.

If you want today’s category hints, click below! These will not spoil the actual names of the categories but will nudge you in the right direction.

Today’s yellow category relates to exactly how something is.

Today’s green category relates to what you might have to do in a difficult situation.

Today’s blue category relates to making words shorter for convenience’s sake.

Today’s purple category relates to words consisting of U.S.-based abbreviations. I’ll be honest with you, I can’t decipher this one even with the answers looking right at me, though that might be a handy hint in itself.