Tips and answers on “Connections” from today’s NYT for Monday, September 23

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ForbesTips and answers on today’s NYT’s “Connections” for Sunday, September 22From Kris Holt

Hey guys! Welcome to the start of a new week! I can tell you that it’s going to be a great week for you.

Today’s NYT Connections Clues and answers coming soon.

How to play connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. Every day at midnight you get a new puzzle. You can NYT Website or game app.

You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to sort these into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names of participants in research studies, or words preceded by a body part.

Each puzzle has only one solution. You must be careful with words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix the words up to see if there are any connections between them.

Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in between, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often includes wordplay.

Choose four words that you think go together and press submit. If you guess wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to getting a correct group, you may see a message letting you know that you’re one word away from the correct group, but you still need to figure out which one to swap out.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with some tips. And if you’re really having trouble, today’s Connections Answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, you can easily share the results with your friends on social media and group chats.

What are today’s connection tips?

Scroll slowly! Immediately after the instructions for each of today’s Connections Groups, I will tell you which groups they are without immediately telling you which words belong in these groups.

Today’s 16 words are…

• CHIP
• BED
• ROUGH
• PATCH
• ROCKY
• ENGRAVING
• PARRALEL
• UNEQUAL
• ROBUST
• SOUTH
• AMUSEMENT
• ACTION
• National
• PACKAGE
• SCRATCHY
• BUMPY

And the clues for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group – perhaps a rocky road
• Green group – like an allotment garden
• Blue group – like PINKY or JERRY
• Purple group – perhaps a public space

What are today’s Connections groups?

Need additional help?

Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler area.

Today’s groups are …

• Yellow group – not smooth, like terrain
• Green Group – a piece of land to cultivate
• Blue Group – Member of a cartoon duo
• Purple Group — ____ Park

What are today’s Connections answers?

Warning, spoilers! Don’t scroll down until you’re ready to see today’s Connections Answer.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections Answers are …

• Yellow group – not smooth, like terrain (bumpy, rough, rugged, uneven)
• Green Group – piece of land for cultivation (BED, PLOT, BEAD, PLOT)
• Blue Group – Member of a cartoon duo (CHIP, ROCKY, SCRATCHY, STITCH)
• Purple Group – ____ Park (AMUSEMENT PARKS, NATIONAL, PARALLEL, SOUTH)

I’m back on the winning track and I’m happy that I managed to play a perfect game. This is how it went for me:

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SCRATCHY and CHIP were my entry point into the blues, and the yellows were easy enough. When I saw the last eight words, the greens came to mind pretty quickly. I figured out the connection to purple before submitting this group for the win.

That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. If you need hints and the solution for Tuesday’s game, be sure to check out my blog.

PS I have never seen Lilo and Stitch, so I should probably correct that after today’s blue group: