Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Friday, October 11

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Hey, everyone! Friday is upon us and I’m starting to make weekend plans. I’m not quite sure exactly what the next two days will entail but I do feel the urge to have a pumpkin spice latte for the first time in about five years. There’s also the small matter of a Scotland game tomorrow. We’re playing Croatia and I’m not confident at all given our form and current injury list.

Anyway, 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.

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…

• NERVE
• SPLASH
• EXTRA
• RELISH
• GRAVY
• TREASURE
• SAUCE
• DIP
• DIVE
• BONUS
• VALUE
• BRASS
• FROSTING
• CHEEK
• SWIM
• SAVOR

And the hints for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group — appreciate
• Green group — popular way to stay cool in the summer
• Blue group — an unexpected perk, perhaps
• Purple group —

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s groups are…

• Yellow group — cherish
• Green group — quick jump in the pool
• Blue group — additional benefit
• Purple group — brashness

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…

• Yellow group — cherish (RELISH, SAVOR, TREASURE, VALUE)
• Green group — quick jump in the pool (DIP, DIVE, SPLASH, SWIM)
• Blue group — additional benefit (BONUS, EXTRA, FROSTING, GRAVY)
• Purple group — brashness (BRASS, CHEEK, NERVE, SAUCE‪)

No perfect game today but I notched my sixth straight win. Here’s how I fared:

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I might have made things a little too easy with that purple clue, but it wasn’t the most difficult group anyway and I couldn’t resist. I enjoyed Drag Race a lot when I was still watching.

Anyway, I got the yellows swiftly before a rushed and nonsensical guess of GRAVY, SAUCE, DIP and FROSTING. I realized my error quickly and got the blues. The greens and purples both became clear immediately when the grid shrank in half.

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 Saturday’s game if you need them.

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