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Johnny Dee
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16 September 2025
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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 Tuesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, September 16 (game #828).
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 #829) – today’s words
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Today’s NYT Connections words are…
NEIGHBORHOOD
NYT Connections today (game #829) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: Items that need a breeze
GREEN: Switch sides
BLUE: Squeeze them in
PURPLE: Partial names of Kids’ TV classics
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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 #829) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: THEY’RE BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
GREEN: CHANGE ONE’S TUNE
PURPLE: LAST WORDS IN LONG-RUNNING CHILDREN’S SHOW TITLES
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NYT Connections today (game #829) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Connections, game #829, are…
YELLOW: THEY’RE BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND FLAG, PINWHEEL, VANE, WIND CHIME
GREEN: CHANGE ONE’S TUNE ABOUT-FACE, BACKPEDAL, FLIP-FLOP, RENEGE
BLUE: CRAM JAM, SHOEHORN, STUFF, WEDGE
PURPLE: LAST WORDS IN LONG-RUNNING CHILDREN’S SHOW TITLES KANGAROO, NEIGHBORHOOD, RAINBOW, STREET
My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect
Another game without any tricks and a round that could, thankfully, be completed without knowledge of LAST WORDS IN LONG-RUNNING CHILDREN’S SHOW TITLES.
It would have been nice if Connections could have included “answers” to the yellow group, THEY’RE BLOWING IN THE WIND, instead of all these things that do actually blow in the wind.
For the purple group I was initially thinking it could be “things neighbors have in their yard” as we had a neighbor who had some WIND CHIMES that were so noisy and annoying that he had to take them down. Barking dogs? Banging techno? Drills? Car alarms? All fine in central London. Wind chimes? A step too far.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, September 16, game #828)
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
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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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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