Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Wednesday, September 18

Looking for some help with Wednesday's NYT Connections? Some hints and the answers are right here.

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Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections. Looking for Tuesday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here: It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections ! 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. 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. Hackers Force Chrome Users To Hand Over Google Passwords. Here’s How Apple’s Update Decision—Bad News Confirmed For Millions Of iPhone Users Today’s Eclipse Of The Full Moon Sets Up A ‘Ring Of Fire’ — What To Know 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...

And the hints for today’s groups are: What Are Today’s Connections Groups? Need some extra help? Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory. Today’s groups are..

. 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.

.. I was so close to a perfect game but I’ll take a fourth straight win.

I clocked right away that there were some cartoon characters that were missing a “y” at the end when I saw DROOP and GOOF. But unfortunately, I rounded out my first guess with SNOOP and DOPE. I realized my error right away and got the purple group.

The blues were next and I had no problems at all with those. The yellows and greens did give me a little pause, though, if only because I’d never heard DOPE being used in the context of giving information. Still, I got the yellows then the greens for another win.

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 Thursday’s game if you need them. P.

S. A new Snow Patrol album just came out. I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but this is as good an opportunity as any to highlight my favorite song of theirs, an underrated, upbeat gem (”Chocolate” and “Set The Fire To The Third Bar” are also personal faves):.