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ForbesToday’s NYT ‘Connections’ hints and answers for Wednesday, October 16By means of Kris Holt

Hey, gang! I hope you’re having a great week so far. I’ve been researching rowing machines since the gym in my building doesn’t have one and I’ve enjoyed using them in the past – certainly more so than other exercise equipment. I’m about to take the plunge, so I may spend many a winter evening at home training while catching up on movies.

Today NYT Connections hints and answers emerge immediately.

Play connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. Every day you get a new puzzle at midnight. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.

You will be shown a grid of 16 words. Your job is to divide them into four groups of four by discovering the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names for study participants, or words preceded by a body part.

There is only one solution to each puzzle, and you have to be careful when it comes to words that fit into more than one category. You can play the words in any order so you might see the connections between them.

Each group has a color code. 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. The purple group often uses puns.

Select four words that you think go together and press Send. If you make a guess and you’re wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to the right group, you might see a message saying you’re just one word away from the right group, but you still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, the game is over. Let’s make sure this doesn’t happen with some tips and, if you’re really struggling, today’s information Connections answers. As with Word and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

What are the connection tips for today?

Scroll slowly! Just after today’s hints for each Connections groups, I will reveal what the groups are, without immediately telling you which words fit into them.

Today’s 16 words are…

• PARK
• AUTO
• HARVARD
• GARDEN
• ADDRESS
• VEGETABLES
• JAW
• LEMON
• NATURALLY
• CRIMINAL
• FIELD
• SWINGER
• LEVER
• GOOD FELLA
• ANSWER
• LAWN

And the tips for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group – public space full of nature
• Green group – fix it
• Blue group – you might enjoy this movie-
• Purple Group – Judge Dredd claims to be the thing connecting these

What are the current connection groups?

Do you need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into it spoiler area.

Today’s groups are…

• Yellow group – grass field
• Green group – tackle it
• Blue group: films with ‘S’ removed
• Purple group – ____ law

What are today’s answers to connections?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to explore today’s information Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today Connections answers are…

• Yellow group — lawn (GREEN, LAWN, PARK, GARDEN)
• Green group — handle (ADDRESS, ANSWER, FIELD, HANDLE)
• Blue group – films with ‘S’ removed (CAR, GOODFELLA, JAW, SWINGER)
• Purple Group — ____ law (CRIMINAL, HARVARD, LEMON, NATURAL)

A perfect game brought me back to winning ways. Here’s how I fared:

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I discovered the blues as soon as I saw GOODFELLA, while seeing HANDLE and ANSWER side by side made the greens clear enough. From then on it was academic as the yellows were quite obvious. But I submitted the purple group before the yellow group just because I could.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of “lemon law” before, so I’m glad I handled things in the order I did.

That’s all it takes for today Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for tips and the solution for Friday’s game if you need it.

PS Let’s do a double recommendation, just because I had the second one drafted before playing today’s game and saw that JAWS was one of the words. It’s horror movie season after all, and Jaws is an important one:

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