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Johnny Dee
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Marc McLaren
20 September 2025
My clues will help you solve the NYT’s Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going
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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 Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, September 20 (game #832).
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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Today’s NYT Connections words are…
NYT Connections today (game #833) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: Smart phone operation
GREEN: Laid back
BLUE: Where to sit at a diner
PURPLE: Healthy food with one thing missing
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 #833) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: TOUCHSCREEN GESTURES
GREEN: RELAX
BLUE: RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS
PURPLE: VEGETABLES WITH FIRST LETTER REMOVED
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YELLOW: TOUCHSCREEN GESTURES PINCH, SCROLL, SWIPE, TAP
GREEN: RELAX CHILL, LOAF, LOUNGE, VEG
BLUE: RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS BAR, BOOTH, COUNTER, TABLE
PURPLE: VEGETABLES WITH FIRST LETTER REMOVED ALE, EEK, HIVE, QUASH
My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect
My food obsession helped me get RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS today, but it didn’t extend to VEGETABLES WITH FIRST LETTER REMOVED. That probably say a lot about my current carb-heavy diet – not that I can see eating more chives (HIVE in this game) would change much.
TOUCHSCREEN GESTURES was also an easy get today, although it is funny to think about how commonplace this interaction with our devices has become.
Anyone who has seen the movie BlackBerry (about the once dominant pre-iPhone brand) will know that buttons (and buttons that make a sound) were seen as essential before we started touching our screens.
Ending a particularly easy round without any surprises was RELAX, which contained a clue for the purple group and some instruction on some agreeable ways to spend your Sunday.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, September 20, game #832)
YELLOW: CAR BRANDS DODGE, FORD, LINCOLN, RAM
GREEN: BIT OF SPORTS BAR FARE CHIP, DIP, FRY, WING
BLUE: N.H.L. TEAM MEMBER DUCK, FLYER, SENATOR, STAR
PURPLE: SKY___ DIVE, LARK, ROCKET, SCRAPER
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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