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ForbesToday’s NYT ‘Connections’ hints and answers for Tuesday, October 8By means of Kris Holt

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round Connections!

There is also big news! The Connections archive is now available, so if you have a NYT Games or All Access subscription, you can go back and play any previous game you missed (and of course check out my previous guides if you need help!).

The NYT says you get:

• Access all past puzzles: play one Connections puzzle from the archives, since its launch on June 12, 2023.
• Progress Tracking: Pick up where you left off with ongoing puzzles and track your gameplay in the archive.
• Personal Performance Insights: View your play history and analyze your stats for previous puzzles.
• Sharing puzzles and deeper insights: After solving an archive puzzle, subscribers can share their results.

Exciting things for us Connections nerds.

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 in 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…

• PLAY
• JASMES
• BUBBLES
• PROGRESS
• BUTTERCUP
• FIZZ
• BLOSSOM
• PITCHFORK
• MOJO
• ADULT
• FOAM
• HOB
• WITH SPOON
• BILLBOARD
• TO DEVELOP
• FOAM

And the tips for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group — a result of fermentation
• Green group – growth
• Blue group – STEREOGUM or QUIETUS would fit here
• Purple group: Watch until the end for home essentials

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 – fizz (BUBBLES, FIZZ, FOAM, FOAM)
• Green group — button (BLOSSOM, DEVELOP, MATURE, PROGRESS)
• Blue Group — Music Publications (BILLBOARD, MOJO, PITCHFORK, SPIN)
• Purple group — ending with tableware (KETTLE PLATE, BUTTER CUP, JACK KNIFE, WITHERSPOON)

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 – fizz (BUBBLES, FIZZ, FOAM, FOAM)
• Green group — button (BLOSSOM, DEVELOP, MATURE, PROGRESS)
• Blue Group — Music Publications (BILLBOARD, MOJO, PITCHFORK, SPIN)
• Purple group — ending with tableware (KETTLE PLATE, BUTTER CUP, JACK KNIFE, WITHERSPOON)

A perfect game gives me four wins in a row. Here’s how I fared:

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This one was pretty easy for me. I immediately saw the blue colors, but decided to go for the yellow colors first as an insurance policy. When the grid contained only eight words, I found the greens quickly. That was a good thing, because I didn’t discover the purple connection.

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

PS Here’s something to give you a little midweek jolt. I love Jimmy Eat World, and this might be my favorite song of theirs: