Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Tuesday, September 10

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ForbesToday’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Monday, September 9By Kris Holt

Hey folks! I hope your week’s off to a solid start. I’m still trying to catch my breath after Monday’s iPhone event, which is always a very busy affair for me at my other gig. It’s always a fun event to cover, as hectic as it may be.

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…

• STARS
• STRIPES
• HAND
• DELIVER
• SORTS
• DECK OF CARDS
• THUMBS
• MONARCHY
• PASS
• TYPES
• NHL
• AF
• PERCENTAGE
• CHECKERS
• GIVE
• KINDS

And the hints for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group — assortment
• Green group — move, dispatch
• Blue group — often seen in movie reviews
• Purple group — they share an element of royalty

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 — varieties
• Green group — transfer
• Blue group — ratings systems
• Purple group — things with kings

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 — varieties (KINDS, SORTS, STRIPES, TYPES)
• Green group — transfer (DELIVER, GIVE, HAND, PASS)
• Blue group — ratings systems (AF, PERCENTAGE, STARS, THUMBS)
• Purple group — things with kings (CHECKERS, DECK OF CARDS, MONARCHY, NHL)

My third win in a row was achieved without a perfect game, unfortunately.

AF made the blues pretty clear off the bat, although I made a mistake by including PASS instead of STARS at first. I was fairly sure that MONARCHY, CHECKERS and DECK OF CARDS were all things that have queens or kings. It would make sense to have NHL in there, but I decided to deduce the other groups first to be sure.

To that end, I figured out the greens, then the yellows. That left the purple group for victory.

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 Wednesday’s game if you need them.

PS Speaking of kings, I’m almost halfway through a rewatch of game of Thronesmy first since the series ended. It’s far pulpier than I remember and the pacing actually works quite well in binge format rather than watching episodes week by week.