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Johnny Dee
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Marc McLaren
15 September 2025
My clues will help you solve the NYT’s Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going
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(Image credit: New York Times)
Today’s words
Hint #1: Group hints
Hint #2: Group answers
Today’s answers
Looking for a different day?
A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Monday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, September 15 (game #827).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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NYT Connections today (game #828) – today’s words
(Image credit: New York Times)
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
TATTOO MACHINE
NYT Connections today (game #828) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: Tracing
GREEN: 12 of these
BLUE: Expensive liquid
PURPLE: Add a fluffy tailed animal
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
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NYT Connections today (game #828) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: KEEP TABS ON
GREEN: ONE IN A DOZEN
BLUE: THINGS WITH INK
PURPLE: ___RABBIT
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NYT Connections today (game #828) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Connections, game #828, are…
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YELLOW: KEEP TABS ON FOLLOW, MONITOR, TRACK, WATCH
GREEN: ONE IN A DOZEN DONUT, JUROR, MONTH, ROSE
BLUE: THINGS WITH INK PEN, PRINTER, SQUID, TATTOO MACHINE
PURPLE: ___RABBIT ROGER, TRIX, VELVETEEN, WHITE
My rating: Hard
My score: Perfect
This was one of my favorite types of Connections games – one in which you are faced with 16 words that appear to make little sense together, before each group reveals itself.
Typically, for me, this means getting each foursome in difficulty order, something I find oddly pleasing.
ONE IN A DOZEN should have been my most-difficult-to-get group, but having recently been a JUROR the number 12 popped straight out at me.
But really, in terms of real experiences informing Connections gameplay, I should have gotten THINGS WITH INK sooner as a) I love SQUID (the band and the marine animal) and b) I am involved in an ongoing war of attrition with my PRINTER due to its inability to actually print anything, especially at moments when I desperately need it to work.
Truly, is there a more frustrating technology than the printer?
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, September 15, game #827)
YELLOW: FLOORING OPTIONS CARPET, LAMINATE, TILE, WOOD
GREEN: BEACHY AREA BANK, COAST, SHORE, STRAND
BLUE: ROMANTIC VIBE CHEMISTRY, CONNECTION, FIREWORKS, SPARK
PURPLE: MEMBER OF A CLASSIC BACKING BAND BANSHEE, HEARTBREAKER, PIP, WAILER
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
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Contributor
Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the iPhone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna’s addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.
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