Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, September 29

Looking for Saturday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:

Hey, folks! I hope you’re having a fantastic weekend.

In case you missed it, The New York Times and The Athletic debuted a sports-based version of Connections last week.

I'm happy to have a second game of Connections to play every day, but I'm not confident I'll fare all that well. I don't know a ton about North American sports, despite living in Canada for well over a decade. I'm primarily a European football-not-soccer guy. I know almost nothing about the college sports system, for instance, and I'm bad with team logos. But I do have good general knowledge, so I might be able to power through trickier games.

As with the regular Connections, we’ll be writing up hints and the answers for each days’ game for the foreseeable future. I’ll be splitting duties on that one with colleagues Paul and Erik.

Anyway, today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

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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...

• PLAY
• JUSTICE
• THROW
• ENERGY
• HONOR
• PASS
• KEEP
• SHAM
• DISCARD
• SHEET
• STATE
• FULFILL
• BLANKET
• LABOR
• UPHOLD
• DRAW

And the hints for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group — stick to your word
• Green group — cozy coverings
• Blue group — things you can do when you hold some of 52
• Purple group — agencies

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 — make good on, as a promise
• Green group — bedding
• Blue group — actions in card games
• Purple group — Cabinet departments

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 — make good on, as a promise (FULFILL, HONOR, KEEP, UPHOLD)
• Green group — bedding (BLANKET, SHAM, SHEET, THROW)
• Blue group — actions in card games (DISCARD, DRAW, PASS, PLAY)
• Purple group — Cabinet departments (ENERGY, JUSTICE, LABOR, STATE)

I was very happy to have a perfect game to extend my winning streak to three. Here's how I fared:

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I got the purple group right away, with JUSTICE and LABOR jumping out at me. The yellows were then easy enough.

The last two groups took a moment to deduce. I thought there might have been something in the pairing of THROW and DISCARD at first, but figure out the greens then the blues without making a mistake.

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 Monday’s game if you need them.

P.S. Outside of reality TV shows, it's very rare that you can watch something and say for certain that someone's life changed forever in that moment. One of my very favorite YouTube videos is Pharrell Williams listening to the brilliant "Alaska" from Maggie Rogers (then a student) for the first time and absolutely gushing over the song: