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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Sept. 17, #1194

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This piece is a routine daily guide to The New York Times' Connections puzzle, offering hints and answers for word-association groupings. While not a major tech story, it reflects the growing consumer appetite for daily brain-teaser games and CNET's ongoing coverage of NYT puzzle content as a recurring content vertical.

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Looking for the most recent NYT Connections puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

In Connections, you look at a grid of 16 words and pick four words that have a connection to each other. You do this four times until all 16 words in the puzzle are grouped. The tough part is that Times associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu chooses words that could fit in multiple groups. The obvious guess — hey! Those are four animals! — is almost always going to be wrong. I’ve compiled my favorite tips for Connections if you need a boost.

The Times 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 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.

Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has a category that movie-goers might solve right away. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers.

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: Stretches.

Green group hint: Not on the surface.

Blue group hint: He played Jean Valjean.

Purple group hint: Not hate.

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