Today's NYT 'Connections' Hints And Answers For Tuesday, October 8

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Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.

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Looking for Monday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:

ForbesToday’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Monday, October 7By Kris Holt

Hey, folks! It’s time once again to take a brief break from regular day-to-day life and spend a few minutes enjoying (or getting frustrated by) Connections. Today’s grid is a bit more straightforward than yesterday’s, but it does have a few red herrings to navigate.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

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

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. 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 one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

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

Today’s 16 words are...

CANE BLOCK ACCIDENTAL SPIDER BAR STAFF APPLE NOTE BAT BAN PUMPKIN CORN FORBID WITCH REST DENY

And the hints for today’s groups are:

Yellow group — often seen at this time of year Green group — disallow Blue group — musicians will be familiar with these Purple group — sweet favorites What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

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

Today’s groups are...

Yellow group — Halloween symbols Green group — prohibit Blue group — found on sheet music Purple group — candy ____ What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

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

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

Yellow group — Halloween symbols (BAT, PUMPKIN, SPIDER, WITCH) Green group — prohibit (BAN, BLOCK, DENY, FORBID) Blue group — found on sheet music (ACCIDENTAL, NOTE, REST, STAFF) Purple group — candy ____ (APPLE, BAR, CANE, CORN)

I was close to a perfect game but caught out by a trap. Nevertheless, I'm up to three wins in a row. Here's how I fared:

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The greens were the most evident group to me today. I was then a little unsure about what to do next. I suspected that APPLE might have gone with the Halloween group as in to bob for apples. I went with a guess of BAR, STAFF, (baseball) BAT and CANE, as in a group of long objects. Not even close.

However, that gave me confidence to go with the more obvious collection of Halloween symbols. Seeing APPLE and CANE together then made the purple group clear. That left the blues for victory, but I didn't figure out that connection. I should have, considering that I used to play keyboard.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them.

P.S. It's easy to forget just how much fun Hocus Pocus is until you rewatch it, so let's go with that for our October movie recommendation today. It's a really good gateway movie into horror for younger viewers who enjoy scary films. I've been meaning to watch the sequel, so I should do that over the next few weeks.