NYT Connections Hints October 4, 2025: Check Clues and Answers to Solve Today’s Puzzle Game

NYT Connections is a type of word puzzle that asks players to find relationships between 16 different words. Your goal is to classify the words into four different groups of four, based on a hidden theme. Some relationship are easy to determine, while others are more tricky and require more creative thinking. The color of the groups shows how tricky they are, yellow is the easiest, while purple is the trickiest. There are a limited number of mistakes allowed, which encourages/ requires careful thought and sometimes acting on gut feeling. 

The October 4 puzzle collected some words that would seem fairly easy, but showed a bit of deftness. Some links suggested mundane activity, others hinted at natural forces, playful cancels, and sweet decadence. Two groups felt straight-forward right off the bat, but others took a bit more trial and error to discover. Like so many editions, it abundant a blend of quick guesses and a bit of patience, that some answers, like made clear, don’t just sit there on the top surface.

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Hints for NYT Connections October 4, 2025  

The NYT Connections Puzzle (#847) was a good mix of both easy and hard, giving players a few short hits and a few times to think a little longer about how a couple of things connected into groups. All connections were at least somewhat easy to find but a few of them required some thought and additional steps to think about how or why they fit together.

Yellow Group Hint: What you might do to repair a tear in your favorite sweater.

Green Group Hint: Words that describe a sudden burst of air.

Blue Group Hint: These four words can all be rearrangements of the same letters.

Purple Group Hint: Sweet treats you might find in a bakery or after a meal.

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 October 4, 2025 (Saturday)

Puzzle #847 from the NYT Connections offered a fun and delightful time, reading easy to understand groupings but with clever twists that were just surprising enough to keep one's interest. It was nice that culture references, cleverness, humor and playfulness were all kept in balance and at appropriate levels all the time, never too much. To all who were able to squeak out all of the categories, great job; it was worth it. More importantly, this is about the experience, and the real fun is practicing on your own and discovering your own patterns!

YELLOW: FIX A HOLE IN CLOTHING (DARN, MEND, PATCH, STITCH)

GREEN: RUSH OF WIND (BLAST, BLOW, GALE, GUST)

BLUE: ANAGRAMS (ARTS, RATS, STAR, TSAR)

PURPLE: KINDS OF COOKIES (FORTUNE, OATMEAL, RAINBOW, SUGAR)

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?

For many people, as part of their daily life, the New York Times and crossword puzzles are simply part of what they do. They do crossword puzzles which include words (letters) in the puzzle. We are different in Connections because you create the pattern created from the word groups rather than doing the crossword solution as solving puzzles. The Connections puzzle is extending the puzzle people go to assemble ideas and thereby connect their processing to some degree into pattern recognition, so in some sense the connections puzzle requires us to apply some degrees of creativity into the play I suppose, and that begs some clever cultural references now and then. Each of the four will have a color associated with the solution. Green is at the lowest and is typically the easiest group (meaning the puzzle is easy), yellow second (meaning it is a little more complicated), and blue (blue being last so it is the hardest color group puzzle).

How to Play the NYT Connections Puzzle

At first glance, NYT Connections appears to be merely a word game, which both the interface and your perception/experience of the interface suggest; as there are definitional connections and/or relational connections in some of the groups, there are way more connections that are pop-culture connections, even connections that are thematic/semantic and often, unrecognizable and hence much deeper as a thematic structures organization.

Last note, you may want it for the enjoyment, not just to enjoy, but to indulge playing the game a second time; It was worth it, the experience was just as much fun.

Best Strategies to Solve NYT Connections Puzzles

A tip in a NY Times Connections puzzle is frame your thinking toward the easier groupings, as they generally are very likely represented by one of the yellow or green groupings, which gives you some advantage, and gives you "bones" toward other groupings that are sometimes more difficult (less real estate on the board), plus are usually normal clues toward the sometimes difficult relations. If you are reminded back to certain finishes pretty firmly challenging the easier groupings off the board, while you are back on board and struggling some again to go back to and string together connections along the board, then remember that sometimes rethinking the words in the same or another arrangement, or vocalizing the words some of aloud, or etc. to break the game for a different thinking or a different perspective.

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 October 5 2025.