NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, October 1 (game #843)

Date:
Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each
day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, September 30 (game #842) .

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #843) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are CANYON HALLWAY RAPIDS FLAME CURRENT JURY SLAM DOOR TUNNEL CATARACT BOOBY SKEWER KNOCK FIRST ZOOM CALL WHIRLPOOL NYT Connections today (game #843) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: White water GREEN: Roasted BLUE: Hello hello PURPLE: Add an award

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT
Connections today (game #843) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: FAST-MOVING WATER GREEN: CRITICIZE BLUE: ECHOEY PLACES PURPLE: ___ PRIZE

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #843) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #843, are YELLOW: FAST-MOVING WATER CATARACT, CURRENT, RAPIDS, WHIRLPOOL GREEN: CRITICIZE FLAME, KNOCK, SKEWER, SLAM BLUE: ECHOEY PLACES CANYON, HALLWAY, TUNNEL, ZOOM CALL PURPLE: ___ PRIZE BOOBY, DOOR, FIRST, JURY My rating: Hard My score: Fail

Every days a school day and today I learned that a cataract is not just an
eye condition but also a type of waterfall.

This knowledge gap cost me dearly as I tried CANYON, TUNNEL, SKEWER and even BOOBY before crashing out on a yellow. Fortunately I had solved the green CRITICIZE group midway through these guesses, so it wasnt a complete whitewash, but still a pretty poor showing.

Exactly a year ago there was an identical FAST-MOVING WATER group, but back then the tiles were CASCADE, CURRENT, RAPID and WAVE. They obviously decided it wasnt hard enough!

Anyway, kudos to everyone who got todays round, as the blue and purple groups were also very tricksy are HALLWAYs and ZOOM CALLs really known for being ECHOEY PLACES? Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, September 30, game #842) YELLOW: UNNATURAL, AS MANNERISMS AWKWARD, STIFF, STILTED, WOODEN GREEN: WORDS IN A FAMOUS TONGUE TWISTER CHUCK, COULD, WOOD, WOODCHUCK BLUE: CARTOON BIRDS FOGHORN, SCROOGE, WOODSTOCK, WOODY PURPLE: ENDING WITH NUMBER HOMOPHONES CLASSICS, CREATE, GUTHRIE, THEREFORE What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green
is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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