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Looking for the most recent NYT Connections puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.<\/p>\n
In Connections, you look at a grid of 16 words and pick four words that have a connection to each other. You do this four times until all 16 words in the puzzle are grouped. The tough part is that Times puzzle editor Wyna Liu<\/a> chooses words that could fit in multiple groups. The obvious guess \u2014 hey! Those are four animals! \u2014 is almost always going to be wrong. I\u2019ve compiled my favorite tips for Connections<\/a> if you need a boost.<\/p>\n The Times has a Connections Bot<\/a>, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can nerd out by following their progress<\/a>, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s Connections puzzle features a very meta purple category that refers back to other puzzles offered by The New York Times. Read on for hints and today\u2019s Connections answers.<\/p>\n Hints for today\u2019s Connections groups<\/p>\n Here are four hints for the groupings in today\u2019s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.<\/p>\n Yellow group hint:\u00a0Set it right there.<\/p>\n Green group hint:\u00a0A tailor works with these.<\/p>\n Blue group hint:\u00a0Rock on.<\/p>\n Purple group hint: More puzzles from the Times.<\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0We Need to Talk About That Doggone Connections Puzzle<\/a><\/p>\n Answers for today\u2019s Connections groups<\/p>\n Yellow group:\u00a0Put.<\/p>\n Green group:\u00a0Dress shirt measurements.<\/p>\n Blue group:\u00a02000s indie rock bands, with \u201cThe.\u201d<\/p>\n Purple group: Starts of NYT print puzzles.<\/p>\n What are today\u2019s Connections answers?<\/p>\n The yellow words in today\u2019s Connections<\/p>\n The theme is put.<\/p>\n The four answers are place, position, situate and stick.<\/p>\n The green words in today\u2019s Connections<\/p>\n The theme is dress shirt measurements.<\/p>\n The four answers are chest, neck, sleeve and waist.<\/p>\n The blue words in today\u2019s Connections<\/p>\n The theme is 2000s indie rock bands, with \u201cThe.\u201d<\/p>\n The four answers are Decemberists, National, Shins and Walkmen.<\/p>\n The purple words in today\u2019s Connections<\/p>\n The theme is starts of NYT print puzzles.<\/p>\n The four answers are acro (acrostic), cross (crossword), ken (KenKen) and sud (sudoku).<\/p>\n Quick tips for Connections<\/p>\n #1: Say the clue words out loud, pausing before and after each. That helps you hear the words in the context of a phrase. The Connections editors love to group words together that are used in similar phrasing, like ____ Up.<\/p>\n #2: Don\u2019t go for the obvious grouping. These editors are smart. Once, they offered SPONGE, BOB, SQUARE and PANTS in the same puzzle. None of those words were in the same category. If you like, hit the \u201cshuffle\u201d button to give yourself a different perspective on the words.<\/p>\n #3: Break down any compound words and look for similarities. \u201cRushmore\u201d was once in a puzzle where the connection was that each word started with the name of a rock band.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of “Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the ’70s and ’80s,” as well as “The Totally Sweet ’90s.” She’s been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She’s Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she’ll be first in line.![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oct1Connections2026.png\")
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