Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Tuesday, October 1

by · Forbes
Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.getty

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Hey, everyone! If you can believe it (I cannot), we’re three quarters of the way through 2024 already. Meanwhile, in case you’re wondering how my week is going, I bought a ticket months ago for a show on Sunday and forgot all about it until after the event. Sigh.

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.

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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...

  • QUICK
  • LATHER
  • CURRENT
  • CONDITION
  • RAPID
  • RINSE
  • HEALTH
  • SWEAT
  • NORMAL
  • WAVE
  • FORM
  • SANITIZE
  • STEW
  • SHAPE
  • CASCADE
  • TIZZY

And the hints for today’s groups are:

  • Yellow group — out of sorts
  • Green group — physical status
  • Blue group — not quite a serene lake
  • Purple group — appliance settings

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 — flustered state
  • Green group — fitness
  • Blue group — fast-moving water
  • Purple group — dishwasher cycles

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.

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Today’s Connections answers are...

  • Yellow group — flustered state (LATHER, STEW, SWEAT, TIZZY)
  • Green group — fitness (CONDITION, FORM, HEALTH, SHAPE)
  • Blue group — fast-moving water (CASCADE, CURRENT, RAPID, WAVE)
  • Purple group — dishwasher cycles (NORMAL, QUICK, RINSE, SANITIZE)

My four-day winning streak is over. Here's how I fared:

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I got off to such a good start by identifying the blues immediately, despite the QUICK/RAPID red herring. But a guess of RINSE, LATHER, SHAPE and CONDITION was way off. I did however, get the purple group next.

It was all downhill from there, though, as I'd never heard of LATHER in the context of the yellows and I just didn't figure out the greens. Gonna blame my annoyance at completely forgetting about that show I had a ticket for.

Ah well. Tomorrow's the start of a new winning streak.

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.

P.S. No big spiel about this one. It's simply one of my favorite songs (particularly at this time of year) and I felt like sharing it. I hope you enjoy it too: