Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is tricky -- it contains one of those purple categories where you have to mentally subtract a letter from four related words to see how they connect. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak. Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time Hints for today's Connections groups Here are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: I beg you! Green group hint: How to reach me. Blue group hint: Take a photo. Purple group hint: Time to swim? Answers for today's Connections groups Yellow group: Entreaty. Green group: Contact info. Blue group: Kinds of camera lenses. Purple group: Bodies of water plus starting letter. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words What are today's Connections answers? The completed NYT Connections puzzle for Sept. 12, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNET The yellow words in today's Connections The theme is entreaty. The four answers are appeal, bid, call and petition. The green words in today's Connections The theme is contact info. The four answers are address, email, name and number. The blue words in today's Connections The theme is kinds of camera lenses. The four answers are fisheye,macro, telephoto and zoom. The purple words in today's Connections The theme is bodies of water plus starting letter. The four answers are driver, ebay, finlet and flake.