Today's Connections tips and answers for Tuesday, September 10

Looking for a clue for today's September 10 Connections puzzle? It can be difficult to figure out the relationship between all those pesky words. If you want to make it easy on yourself, you've come to the right place.

Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by The New York Times (NYT), publisher of the endlessly popular Wordle puzzle. Created each day by puzzle maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words that you must group into four groups of four words, with each group of four words sharing a common theme.

It's a simple premise, but as many of us here know, connections can sometimes be devilishly difficult, filled to the brim with red herrings, misleading words, and little-known trivia. If you're having trouble solving today's connections puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers for Tuesday, September 10, 2024.

Below we offer some carefully crafted tips and pointers for today's Connections. Then we reveal the four different groups and finally we answer the Connections themselves for those who are tired of wondering how it all fits together.

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Connection information for Tuesday, September 10

Here you'll find a clue for each group of words in today's Connections puzzle, plus some other Connections clues to help you find the answer.

Our connections tips for today are:

• Yellow (easiest): Different groups.
• Green (simple): What does the postman do with these packages when he gives them to you?
• Blue (medium): rankings.
• Purple (hardest): In all of them the queen can be seen as a companion.
• Extra tip 1: Stars and Stripes are in different groups.
• Extra tip 2: Nhl should probably be spelled in capital letters – NHL.

If you're looking for more Connections clues today to help narrow down the answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal a word from each group:

Yellow (easiest):

Types

Green (simple):

Happen

Blue (medium):

Stars

Purple (hardest):

lady

What are today’s connection words?

Here are the 16 connecting words for today:

What are today's Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to solve today's Connections puzzle, below we'll show you the four correct Connections groups – the themes that link each group of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Varieties
• Transfer
• Rating systems
• Things with Kings

Now that you know the topics for the different compounds in today's puzzle, try to solve it! If not, you can find the full answer below.

Spoiler alert! Today's Connections answer is ahead of you!

What are today's Connections answers?

Here are the full answers to today's Connections puzzle for Tuesday, September 10th:

• Varieties: Species, varieties, stripes, types
• Transfer: Hand over, hand over, give, pass on
• Rating systems: AF, Percentage, Stars, Thumbs
• Things with Kings: checkers, card game, monarchy, NHL

I don't follow the NHL, so I didn't know about the Los Angeles Kings, but if you did, bravo! You probably got the Purple group right. The rest of the groups are a little nebulous, making this one of the more difficult pairings of the last week.

Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy tips above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like Wordle.

What is Connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games from the New York Times (owner of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words sharing a common theme.

For example, the words “hook,” “nana,” “Peter,” and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or, to give another example, “action,” “ballpark,” “go,” and “stick” are all words that usually come right before the word “figure.”

Your task is to find out which topics the different words connect. But be careful, because often false connections are deliberately made to mislead you! To win the game, you must find all four connections without making four mistakes. If you make a fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is automatically displayed.

Each of the four groups in the Connections puzzle of the day is also given a different color that indicates how easy or difficult the connection is to find. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (easy), blue (moderately difficult) and purple (most difficult).

That concludes today's guide to solving the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you need help with Wordle, we also have our list of previous Wordle answers for you, as well as the Wordle clue and answer for Tuesday, September 10. You can also check out our list of best Wordle beginning words or use our Wordle solver tool to find the answer with ease!