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ForbesTips and answers on today’s NYT’s “Connections” for Friday, September 20From Kris Holt

Hey guys! I have to admit, I’m a little disappointed because it’s officially the last weekend of summer. Don’t get me wrong, I love the fresh air and the colors of the leaves in fall, but I’m not ready to say goodbye to pool weather just yet. I think I’m going to make the most of it this weekend.

Today’s NYT Connections Clues and answers coming soon.

How to play connections

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

You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to sort these into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names of participants in research studies, or words preceded by a body part.

Each puzzle has only one solution. You must be careful with words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix the words up to see if there are any connections between them.

Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in between, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often includes wordplay.

Choose four words that you think go together and press submit. If you guess wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to getting a correct group, you may see a message letting you know that you’re one word away from the correct group, but you still need to figure out which one to swap out.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with some tips. And if you’re really having trouble, today’s Connections Answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, you can easily share the results with your friends on social media and group chats.

What are today’s connection tips?

Scroll slowly! Immediately after the instructions for each of today’s Connections Groups, I will tell you which groups they are without immediately telling you which words belong in these groups.

Today’s 16 words are…

• REAL
• MEDIUM
• IMPRESSIVE
• EXCLUSIVE
• PRETTY
• RARELY
• TERRIBLE
• MYSTIC
• AWAY
• WELL DONE
• BLOODY
• LIMITED
• ORACLE
• PROPS
• COLLECTOR’S ITEM
• MENTAL

And the clues for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group – someone who claims to see the future
• Green Group – used to describe items that are available in very limited quantities, such as rare Pokémon cards
• Blue Group – “That was awesome!”
• Purple group – very much so

What are today’s Connections groups?

Need additional help?

Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler area.

Today’s groups are …

• Yellow Group – Clairvoyants
• Green Group – Special Edition Adjectives
• Blue Group – “great work!”
• Purple Group – extreme

What are today’s Connections answers?

Warning, spoilers! Don’t scroll down until you’re ready to see today’s Connections Answer.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections Answers are …

• Yellow Group – Clairvoyants (MEDIUM, MYSTIC, ORACLE, PSYCHIC)
• Green Group – Special Edition Adjectives (COLLECTIBLE, EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED, RARE)
• Blue Group – “great job!” (IMPRESSIVE, BEAUTIFUL, PROPS, WELL DONE)
• Purple Group – Extreme (TERRIBLE, DAMN, REALLY, SO)

Hooray! I played my first perfect game in a long time and won for a whole week.

There was an obvious red herring here in the form of RARE, MEDIUM, WELL DONE and BLOODY. But MEDIUM had to be combined with the rest of the yellows, so I didn’t fall into that trap.

Therefore, WELL DONE had to be one of the blue words. This meant that RARE was one of the green words, and I was left with the purple words, where I had figured out the context before I made my guess.

That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for hints and the solution for Sunday’s game if you need them.

PS: Summer isn’t quite over yet, so let’s celebrate with a party song and keep the spirits up. Here’s one that’s guaranteed to get you dancing and singing along: