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Hey there, Connectors! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. Let’s make sure you can slide into the weekend with your Connections streak in one piece.

I did the whole Boys’ Brigade thing for a while as a kid and once joined my company on a trip to the battalion’s outdoor center. I don’t really have any stories to share from this weekend away, but I did recently stumble across a video tour of the place from a while back, so I thought I’d share it. The lodge really hasn’t changed much since I was there. At least the scenery is quite nice!

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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, September 25 are coming right up. Let’s get rolling!

Connections is a free New York Times daily word game that you can play on the NYT ’s website or Games app. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive, which includes every previous game.

Connections presents you with a grid of 16 words (sometimes phrases, symbols or numbers). The aim is to arrange them into four groups of four. You don’t know how they hit together or what the category for each group is: that’s what you have to figure out.

There’s only one correct solution and there are often red herrings. You can guess incorrectly three times. A fourth wrong guess, and it’s game over.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to deduce, followed by green, blue and purple. Often, the yellow and green groups have synonyms, the blues have cultural references and the purples have some kind of wordplay involved. But this is not a hard and fast rule. Be ready for curveballs – part of the fun of Connections is in how the NYT shakes things up to keep you on your toes.

As with Wordle and similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends using an emoji-based grid. The game tracks your progress too.

Many players take pride in having long win streaks or getting a reverse rainbow – correctly guessing the purple, blue, green and yellow groups in that order with no mistakes. That adds an extra little challenge.

Today’s NYT Connections Word List

After today’s Connections word list, I’ll give you a hint for each category. After that, I’ll reveal one word that goes into each group. Then I’ll reveal the categories, followed by the full answers.

  • RATHER
  • BOUGIE
  • GENIUS
  • SPRING
  • BORDER
  • RATCHET
  • SWANK
  • SAVAGE
  • CLASSY
  • LEVY
  • PENDULUM
  • FANCY
  • ESCAPEMENT
  • POSH
  • FOAMILY
  • AYKROYD

Today’s NYT Connections Hints

The hints for today’s Connections categories are:

  • 🟨 Yellow group — on the high end
  • 🟩 Green group — they make sure hands do what they’re supposed to
  • 🟦 Blue group — two of ‘em showed us Everything Everywhere All at Once and another brought Robert Langdon into the world
  • 🟪 Purple group — overly organized?

One Answer For Each NYT Connections Group

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

Let’s take a look at one answer for each group.

  • 🟨 Yellow group — SWANK
  • 🟩 Green group — PENDULUM
  • 🟦 Blue group — SAVAGE
  • 🟪 Purple group — GENIUS

Today’s NYT Connections Categories

Today’s Connections groups are...

  • 🟨 Yellow group — luxe
  • 🟩 Green group — parts of a mechanical clock
  • 🟦 Blue group — famous Dans
  • 🟪 Purple group — taxonomic ranks plus a letter

Today’s NYT Connections Answer

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Today’s Connections answers are...

  • 🟨 Yellow group — luxe (BOUGIE, FANCY, POSH, SWANK)
  • 🟩 Green group — parts of a mechanical clock (ESCAPEMENT, PENDULUM, RATCHET, SPRING)
  • 🟦 Blue group — famous Dans (AYKROYD, LEVY, RATHER, SAVAGE)
  • 🟪 Purple group — taxonomic ranks plus a letter (BORDER, CLASSY, FOAMILY, GENIUS)

AYKROYD couldn’t really be anything else but a Dan, and a few moments of poking around got me to the blues. I then had a “four out of five” situation with the words referring to the high life -- SWANK, BOUGIE, CLASSY, FANCY and POSH. I wasn’t sure which way to go immediately, so I left those alone for a bit.

I figured FOAMILY had to have some kind of funkiness going on. I thought of “family,” which meant it had an extra letter. Looking over at GENIUS, I was then able to figure out the purples.

That eliminated one possibility from the luxury words, so I had the yellows locked in. The greens were soft of leftovers, because I don’t know what an ESCAPEMENT is. In any case, that’s win number 572 on my current streak.

How did you get on this time? Here’s my grid:

Want to know more about how everything fits together? Let’s explore today’s game in more depth in my NYT Connections Answers Explained column. You can check that out by visiting my author page .

That’s all from me here this week on the Connections front (save for Answers Explained, at least). I’ll be back for another midweek run of fun and games on Monday. In the meantime, you also read my weekend editions of this column and more of my writing at my newsletter, Pastimes .

P.S. I didn’t know until recently that The Beautiful South had released an album of cover songs. It features a really cool version of “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult. Rather than taking the psychedelic rock approach or adding more cowbell, The Beautiful South gave this stone-cold classic a salsa-style spin:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!

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