NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, October 5 (game #847)

Date:
Sat, 04 Oct 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 Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, October 4 (game #846) .

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 #847) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are BUMPER POT FROZEN WATER SHOCK HOLIDAY
SPORTS FLOOR GETAWAY SOIL ROCK MUSIC CHERISH CLOWN SEED SHAKE NYT Connections today (game #847) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Let it grow GREEN: Stunned BLUE: Queen of pops hits PURPLE: Add a vehicle

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 #847) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: USED TO GROW A HOUSEPLANT GREEN: FLABBERGAST BLUE: MADONNA SONGS PURPLE: ____CAR

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #847) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #847, are YELLOW: USED TO GROW A HOUSEPLANT POT, SEED, SOIL, WATER GREEN: FLABBERGAST FLOOR, ROCK, SHAKE,
SHOCK BLUE: MADONNA SONGS CHERISH, FROZEN, HOLIDAY, MUSIC PURPLE: ____CAR BUMPER, CLOWN, GETAWAY, SPORTS My rating: Easy My score: 1 mistake

The easy Connections puzzles continue for another day, but I still managed to make hard work of it.

Im kicking myself a bit today, as I had BUMPER and SHOCK together thinking there was a car parts group. If Id thought a bit harder I could have solved the purple group.

Despite being a fan of MADONNA SONGS I still managed to screw up the group by initially thinking it was something to do with vacations and making my single
but highly regrettable mistake. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, October 4, game #846) 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 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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