NYT ‘Connections’ September 8: Answers, Clues for Game [Video]

If you’re struggling with Connections, Newsweek is here to help with another round of hints and solutions for today’s puzzle.

Last year, The New York Times launched the word-based game following the extraordinary success of Wordle that the newspaper purchased in January 2022 from Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn-based software engineer.

Like Wordle before it, Connections soon developed a dedicated following across the English-speaking world, with some players taking to social media daily to share their results along with advice.

How to Play Connections

Each day, players are presented with 16 words, which they are tasked with dividing into four categories based around common characteristics.

The four categories are all color coded to show their difficulty, with yellow being the easiest then green, blue and purple. Players choose four words at a time and if they are connected, constituting one of the four categories, they light up and are removed from the board. At this point, their color …