NYT Connections puzzle hint and answer for Tuesday, September 5 (#86)
Let's get the Tuesday September 5 (86) NYT Connections game all lined up. Feel free to use our helpful hints to kickstart your daily game or finally pin down that one word you can't seem to match up, or go straight for the win with our full list of today's answers. New to the game? No problem. Just keep scrolling and take a peek at our general tips and info.
One deceptively simple word almost caught me out today, a sneaky trap that did a good job of looking innocent for far too many guesses. Luckily for me I eventually decided to approach today's Connections from a different angle, and tidied up the board that way instead.
Yellow: Try to think of various ways you can display information
Green: Nice little treats and unexpected goodies are the theme here
Blue: What would you traditionally eat during a big winter celebration?
Purple: (Do your best and) Think of song titles
Yellow: Chart, Diagram, Graph, Map
Green: Bonus, Extra, Icing, Perk
Blue: Gravy, Pie, Stuffing, Turkey
Purple: I Ran, Istanbul, Montero, Satisfaction
Connections is the NYT's latest popular puzzle game where you have to find the common thread that ties four seemingly unrelated words together. Can you find all four increasingly challenging groups of words before you make four mistakes? Don't forget: every day only has one solution even if some words look like they could belong to more than one group, and you can (and should) shuffle the grid as many times as you need to. It can help jog your brain into reading the words in a different way.
If you enjoy Connections, you should check out the board game Codenames. It's a popular party game that tasks players with using clues to guess certain words from a grid. As in Connections, the heart of the game
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