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Looking for a hint for today’s Connections puzzle, September 12? Connections can go from light entertainment to sheer frustration faster than you think. If you’re stuck on today’s word list, we’ve got a bunch of hints below, along with all the revealed word groups, to help you out.

Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by the New York Times (NYT), the host of the endlessly popular Wordle puzzle. Created daily by puzzle creator Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, which you must group into four sets of four, with each group of four words sharing a common theme.

It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, Connections can be fiendishly difficult at times, filled with false clues, misleading words, and little-known trivia. If you’re struggling to solve today’s Connections puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers by Thursday, September 12, 2024.

Below we provide some carefully curated hints and clues for today’s connections, then we reveal the four different groups and finally we provide the answers to the connections themselves, for those of you who are tired of wondering how it all fits together.

In this guide:

Connection Tips for Thursday September 12

Below you’ll find a hint for each word group in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a few more Connections clues to help you figure out the answer.

Our connection tips for today are:

• Yellow (easiest): A way to re-watch something online later.
• Green (Easy): To act as a representative of someone or something.
• Blue (Medium): They all have a specific professional sport in common.
• Purple (hardest): These all end with specific letters from a particular alphabet.
• Extra tip 1: There are no food groups today.
• Extra tip 2: Birds and biota belong to two different groups.

If you’re looking for more Connections hints today to help narrow down your answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word that belongs to each group:

Yellow (easiest):

Favorite

Green (Easy):

Advantage

Blue (Medium):

Kobe

Purple (hardest):

Biota

What are today’s Connections words?

Here are today’s 16 Connections words:

What are the current Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to solve today’s connection puzzle, we’ve revealed the four correct connection groups below. These are the themes that connect each set of four words in the connection grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Bookmark online for later
• On behalf of
• NBA Legends, Known
• Ending with Greek letters

Now that you know the themes for the different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, see below for the full answer.

Spoiler alert! Today’s answer to Connections is coming soon!

What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle, Thursday, September 12:

• Bookmark online for later: Bookmark, Favorite, Like, Save
• On behalf of: Advantage, benefit, interest, importance
• NBA legends, known: Bird, Curry, Kobe, Magic
• Ending with Greek letters: Biota, Feta, Mochi, Pepsi

I won’t lie, I gave up on today’s Connections pretty quickly. I got the first group of words down easy enough, but became obsessed with making the perfect dish and was convinced Connections was trying to trick me into thinking “sake” wasn’t the alcoholic beverage. In all of that, I missed the obvious Kobe and Magic NBA connections and don’t even get me started on the bullshit that last group is. Well done Connections, you fooled me again.

Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t get it right today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like on Wordle.

What are connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words having a common theme.

For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words that often appear just before the word “Figure”.

Your task is to figure out what these themes are that connect the different words – but be careful, because there are often red herring connections that are deliberately put in there to throw you off! To win the game, you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is automatically revealed.

Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different color, indicating how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colors are: Yellow (easiest), Green (easiest), Blue (medium), and Purple (hardest).

That wraps up today’s guide on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for help with Wordle, we also have our list of previous Wordle answers for you, and the Wordle hint and answer for Monday, September 16th. You can also check out our list of the best opening words for Wordle, or use our Wordle Solver tool to help you find the answer easily!