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ForbesToday’s NYT ‘Connections’ hints and answers for Sunday, September 29By means of Kris Holt

Hey, people! Welcome to the start of a new week! I hope it’s an excellent one for you. I think today’s song recommendation will put you in a good mood.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers emerge immediately.

Play connections

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

You will be shown a grid of 16 words. Your job is to divide them into four groups of four by discovering the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names for study participants, or words preceded by a body part.

There is only one solution to each puzzle, and you have to be careful when it comes to words that fit into more than one category. You can play the words in any order so you might see the connections between them.

Each group has a color code. 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. The purple group often uses puns.

Select four words that you think go together and press Send. If you make a guess and you’re wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to the right group, you might see a message saying you’re just one word away from the right group, but you still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, the game is over. Let’s make sure this doesn’t happen with some tips and, if you’re really struggling, today’s information Connections answers. As in Word and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

What are the connection tips for today?

Scroll slowly! Just after today’s hints for each Connections groups, I will reveal what the groups are, without immediately telling you which words fit into them.

Today’s 16 words are…

• DOROTHIE
• Wandering
• ROSE
• STEAM
• VANILLA
• SOPHIA
• CHAGGIG
• BLANCHING
• CHARLIE
• TO COOK
• KETO
• MUSK
• AMBER GRAY
• WALLACE
• SOUL
• SYRUP

And the tips for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group – liquid-oriented cooking methods
• Green group – they smell better together
• Blue group – fictional creatures with quadrupeds
• Purple group – post soundalikes

What are the current connection groups?

Do you need some extra help?

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

Today’s groups are…

• Yellow group – cook with heat and water
• Green group – common perfume ingredients
• Blue group — characters with dogs
• Purple group – homophones in the capital

What are today’s answers to connections?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to explore today’s information Connections answers.

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Today Connections answers are…

• Yellow group – cooking with heat and water (BLANCHING, BOILING, POACHING, STEAMING)
• Green group – commonly used perfume ingredients (AMBERGRIS, MUSK, ROSE, VANILLA)
• Blue group – characters with dogs (CHARLIE, DOROTHY, SHAGGY, WALLACE)
• Purple group – homophones in the capital (KETO, ROAM, SOPHIA, SOUL)

Back-to-back perfect games bring my overall winning streak to four. Here’s how I fared:

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I thought this was a relatively lighthearted start to the week. As soon as I saw DOROTHY my thoughts immediately went to The Wizard of Oz and by the time I finished copying the glossary, I had figured out the blues. The yellow colors were also very simple.

I didn’t know what AMBERGRIS was, but I inferred the rest of the vegetables and that one seemed to make the most sense. I didn’t discover the purple group, somewhat embarrassingly. For the record, the cities mentioned are Quito, Rome, Sofia and Seoul.

That’s all it takes for today Connections clues and answers. Make sure to visit my blog for tips and the solution to Tuesday’s game if you need it.

PS Here’s a cool song I just heard for the first time. Apple Music’s autoplay feature got it going for me after listening to something else on Sunday morning. It’s actually a pretty great Sunday morning song. I think it works just as well as a song to start your week with: