NYT Connections Hints September 22, 2025: Check Clues and Answers to Solve Today’s Puzzle Game

The NYT Connections game has rapidly gained popularity among word game enthusiasts. In it, players must sort sixteen words into four hidden categories. While crosswords and Wordle encourage more traditional thinking, Connections urges the player to think outside the box to identify connections that can be direct or cunning. The enjoyment here is the combination of reasoning, recognition of patterns, and cultural references, all in the quick daily puzzle. In fact, the task can frequently be a head-scratching challenge, even for seasoned puzzle enthusiasts.

22nd September,2025 NYT Connections puzzle (#836) struck a nice balance, with some categories jumping out at you instantly, while others made you read it a second time to just figure it out. The clever combinations were rewarding for both casual players and seasoned Connections veterans. And, while a couple of groups relied on knowledge of pop culture, others rewarded you for pure skills of word and letterplay. In the end, everyone had a fair chance! Whether you solved all the categories or just made it that far, today's Connections was a fun time without being unnecessarily difficult.

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The NYT Connections puzzle (#834) offered a gratifying mix of easier wins and more challenging connections. It was enjoyable to explore the connections between words and cultural references, though not overly difficult. If you accomplished all four groups of words, congratulations! If you didn't, don't worry about it. 

Yellow Group Hint: Measures derived from dimensions.

Green Group Hint: High-contrast pairings and patterns.

Blue Group Hint: Las Vegas casino-hotels.

Purple Group Hint: Words that sound like clusters of alphabetic characters.

Stepping back will often expose the clever logic that provided the unifying. Let’s take a moment to go through the groups together, and explore the connections that tie these words together so nicely.

NYT Connections Answers for September 22, 2025 (Monday)

The NYT Connections Puzzle (#834) was a fun combination of easy matches and unexpected turns. The acknowledgements to culture, as well as playable language, kept it fun but not complicated. If you were able to create all four, congrats! If you weren't able to, no problem, trying just develops your brain's ability to recognize patterns more quickly. Just keep at it, enjoy the game, and watch your instincts get sharper with every game.

YELLOW: BASIC GEOMETRIC CALCULATIONS (AREA, LENGTH, PERIMETER, VOLUME)

GREEN: BLACK-AND-WHITE THINGS (CROSSWORD, DOMINO, ORCA, OREO)

BLUE: LAS VEGAS CASINO HOTELS (ARIA, ENCORE, EXCALIBUR, LUXOR)

PURPLE: WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE PLURAL LETTERS (ARS, AYES, EASE, OWES)

It’s perfectly fine if you don’t complete a Connections puzzle, or if you need to set it aside before reaching the solution.

What is the NYT Connections Game?

Many people who write and solve crossword puzzles on a daily basis have considered New York Times Connections as a big part of their daily puzzle journey. Rather than solving a crossword grid, the challenge of this puzzle is arranging the pattern from words (letters). The puzzle hones its players into working with pattern recognition, creative thinking, and at times clever cultural references. 

There is a color associated with each of the four solutions. Green is typically the easiest color group, followed by yellow, then blue, and is most often the most difficult color group. What makes Connections so addictive is the combination of logic and creativity as a puzzling experience. Initially, the puzzle is a relatively simple exercise, but at the further you go more words you have, and you will want to play again the next day for some different puzzling.

How to Play the NYT Connections Puzzle

Initially, NYT Connections appears to be just another simple word game, and its undeniably clean interface makes it easy to infer that it’s simply a word game. Although there are a few notable definitional or relationship connections among some of the groups, there also associations based on pop-cultural references, wordplay, and subtle, not-so-obvious thematic or semantic relationships. 

For me, the exploration element is, one hundred percent of the time, the most enjoyable aspect of Connections. You can mix it up, explore, or do some irresponsible exploring when you are unearthing the relationships between words, so every round is less about the urgency of speed and more about how the words relate to each other.

The game is enjoyable, but more importantly, part of the enjoyment is the engagement and a workout for your befuddled brain of simulating memory and establishing connections to your memory, while also, at the third tier, to enjoy the engaged, entertained, and valued experience of play again.

Best Strategies to Solve NYT Connections Puzzles

One helpful strategy when attempting the NYT Connections puzzle is to arrange the easier sets first, often one of the yellow or green groups first, because it provides you with some "bones" for the other more difficult sets (makes you space on the board), and usually helps to provide some hints to the more difficult connections. If you are feeling stuck after addressing the easier sets, consider putting the words into different positions a second time, moving them around, saying them out loud, etc. 

Sometimes, a short break or just a different consideration or perspective will assist you in finding the links you were unable to before. Groups do not always connect with definitions; they can be cultural references, clever wordplay, or just logical connections, too. In fact, as you are organizing the words into sections, you will want to keep an open mind and make some observations, explore, and rethink the formations.

Other NYT Games to Explore

If NYT Connections has become your new favorite, check out other daily brain teasers and games from The New York Times. 

Wordle: Guess a five-letter word in six attempts. 

Spelling Bee: Craft as many words as possible from a set of seven letters.

Mini Crossword: For a quick wordplay, perfect for a coffee break.

That's all for today's NYT Connections puzzle! Be sure to come back tomorrow for NYT Connections Hints and Answers for September 23, 2025.