Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on October 8? We’re here to give you all the tips you need to ensure your Connections score remains perfect and flawless.

Connections is a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), host of the endlessly popular Wordle puzzle. Created every day by puzzle creator Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, and you have to group them into four sets of four, with each group of four words having a common theme.

It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, connections can sometimes be devilishly difficult, filled to the brim with red herrings, misleading words, and little-known trivia. If you’re having trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers for Tuesday, October 8, 2024.

Below we offer some carefully curated hints and clues for today’s Connections, and then we reveal the four different groups, and finally the Connections answers itself for those tired of wondering how it all fits together.

In this guide:

Connection tips for Tuesday, October 8

Here’s a hint for each of the phrases in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a few more Connections clues to help you find the answer.

Our Connections tips for today are:

• Yellow (easiest): October 31 words.
• Green (easy): To prevent someone from doing something.
• Blue (medium): Musicians know this one.
• Purple (most difficult): All of these can be turned into sweet treats.
• Additional tip 1: Accidental and Note belong in the same group.
• Additional tip 2: Bar and Corn belong in the same group.

If you’re looking for more Connections tips today to help you narrow down the answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word associated with each group:

Yellow (easiest):

Witch

Green (easy):

Forbid

Blue (medium):

Rest

Purple (most difficult):

Corn

What are today’s Connections words?

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

What are the current Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to unravel today’s Connections puzzle, below we reveal the four correct Connections groups: the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Halloween symbols
• Forbid
• Found on sheet music
• Sweets ___

Now that you know the themes for the different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve them! If not, see below for the full answer.

Spoiler warning! Today’s answer to Connections is ahead!

What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday, October 8:

• Halloween Symbols: Bat, pumpkin, spider, witch
• Forbid: Ban, block, deny, forbid
• Found on sheet music: Coincidental, comment, peace, staff
• Sweets ___: Apple, Bar, Reed, Corn

If you know a little music theory (and appreciate Halloween), today’s Connections isn’t that bad. Figuring out the candy relationship between all of the Purple Group’s words put me in a bit of a loop, but once I got “Candy Corn,” everything else fell into place.

Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our helpful tips above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry: a new Connections puzzle will appear every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle.

What are connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words having a common theme.

For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter” and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, ‘Action’, ‘Ballpark’, ‘Go’ and ‘Stick’ are all words that usually come right before the word ‘Figure’.

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the different words – but be wary, as often distracting connections are deliberately put in to throw you off! To win the game, you must find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer is automatically revealed.

Each of the four groups in each day’s Connection Puzzle is also assigned a different color, indicating how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (easy), blue (medium) and purple (hardest).

That concludes today’s guide on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for help with Wordle, we also have our list of past Wordle answers for you, as well as the Wordle hint and answer for Monday, October 7. You can also check out our list of the best Wordle starter words, or use our Wordle Solver tool to help you find the answer with ease!