Today's NYT “Connections” tips and answers for Wednesday, October 9th

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ForbesToday's NYT “Connections” tips and answers for Tuesday, October 8thFrom Kris Holt

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

Plus, there's some big news! The Connections The archive is now available. So if you have one NYT Games or an 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 any Connections Puzzle from the archives, since its release on June 12, 2023.
• Progress Tracking: Pick up where you left off with all ongoing puzzles and track your gameplay in the archive.
• Personal Performance Insights: Check your game history and analyze your stats for past puzzles.
• Sharing puzzles and digging deeper: After solving an archive puzzle, subscribers can share their results.

Exciting stuff for us Connections Nerds.

Today NYT Connections Hints and answers are coming soon.

How to play connections

Connections is a free, popular one New York Times daily pun. You will receive a new puzzle every day at midnight. You can play on that NYT Website or gaming app.

You will be presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to divide them into four groups of four by figuring out the connections between them. The groups can be items you can click on, names of research participants, or words preceded by a body part.

Each puzzle has only one solution and you need to be careful when it comes to words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix up the words to perhaps better see the connections between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often contains puns.

Select four words that you think go together and click Send. If you guess and are wrong, you lose a life. When you're close to finding the right group, you may see a message saying you're one word away from the right group, but you still need to figure out which word to swap.

If you make four mistakes, the game is over. Let's make sure that this doesn't happen with the help of some tips, and if you really find it difficult, even with today's ones Connections Answer. Like 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 connection notes?

Scroll slowly! Right after the clues for each of today's Connections Groups, I will reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you what words appear in them.

Today's 16 words are…

• TURN
• FOLDING KNIFE
• Blow
• PROGRESS
• BUTTERCUP
• FIZZ
• BLOSSOM
• PITCHFORK
• MOJO
• TIRES
• FOAM
• BOILER PLATE
• WITHERSPOON
• billboard
• DEVELOP
• FOAM

And the clues for today's groups are:

• Yellow group – a result of fermentation
• Green group – grow
• Blue group – STEREOGUM or QUIETUS would fit in here
• Purple Group – search to the end for the essentials for your home

What are today's sorority groups?

Do you need additional help?

Be warned: We're starting to get into this Spoiler territory.

Today's groups are…

• Yellow group – frothing (BUBBLES, SPLASH, FOAM, FOAM)
• Green Group – Sprout (BLOOMING, DEVELOPMENT, MATURITY, PROGRESS)
• Blue Group – music publications (BILLBOARD, MOJO, PITCHFORK, SPIN)
• Purple group – ends with dishes (BOILERPLATE, BUTTERCUP, JACKKNIFE, WITHERSPOON)

What are today's connection solutions?

Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today Connections Answer.

This is your final warning!

Today Connections Answers are…

• Yellow group – frothing (BUBBLES, SPLASH, FOAM, FOAM)
• Green Group – Sprout (BLOOMING, DEVELOPMENT, MATURITY, PROGRESS)
• Blue Group – music publications (BILLBOARD, MOJO, PITCHFORK, SPIN)
• Purple group – ends with dishes (BOILERPLATE, BUTTERCUP, JACKKNIFE, WITHERSPOON)

A perfect game brings me up to four wins in a row. This is what happened to me:

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This one was pretty easy for me. I discovered the blue tones immediately, but initially decided on the yellow tones for safety reasons. When the grid was reduced to eight words, I quickly found the greens. That was a good thing since I didn't figure out the purple connection.

That's all for today Connections Hints and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for tips and the walkthrough for Thursday's game if you need them.

PS: Here's something to give you a little kick during the week. I love Jimmy Eat World and this might be my favorite song of theirs: