Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Saturday, October 12

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Hey, gang! Welcome to the weekend. I hope you’ve got a fun one in store. In case you’re at a loose end, I’ve got a very fun movie recommendation at the end of today’s guide.

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…

• GOO
• COO
• APP
• WRAP
• SWALLOW
• MOTOR
• HONK
• BEAR
• GOBBLE
• SCARF
• STAND
• SAM
• STOLE
• TAKE
• HOOT
• SHAWL

And the hints for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group — fabric embellishments
• Green group — put up with
• Blue group — sounds of winged animals
• Purple group — they may half made the thing that’s in your hand right now

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 — draped accessories
• Green group — tolerate
• Blue group — bird onomatopoeia
• Purple group — starts of cell phone makers

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 — draped accessories (SCARF, SHAWL, STOLE, WRAP)
• Green group — tolerate (BEAR, STAND, SWALLOW, TAKE)
• Blue group — bird onomatopoeia (COO, GOBBLE, HONK, HOOT)
• Purple group — starts of cell phone makers (APP, GOO, MOTOR, SAM)

My first perfect game in a few days brought me my seventh straight win. Here’s how I fared:

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Seeing SWALLOW and BEAR on the same line helped the greens jump out, then the yellows were straightforward enough. HONK and GOBBLE made the blues clear to me, leaving the purple group (which I didn’t deduce and found a little annoying) for victory.

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 Sunday’s game if you need them.

P.S. One of my very favorite horror comedies is Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. It’s an absolutely delightful subversion of horror tropes. I’m still bummed a sequel hasn’t happened yet.

The trailer has some spoilers, so just trust me on this — it’s a darn good time: