NYT Connections hints and answers today, Monday Oct 13
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Need a hint for today’s Connections on Monday, 13th October? It’s yet another tough one, but don’t be too quick to quit this Connections challenge. No matter how many themes you have (or haven’t) solved, with this guide by your side, the solution to today’s Connections conundrum is within reach.
Here are some hints, tips, theme reveals, and more to help you out.
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Monday, 13th October
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Pandora’s box | Lucky stiff | Live music | Golden fleece |
| Good riddance | Happy hour | Hornet’s nest | Comic con |
| Karaoke | American hustle | Sayonara | Minefield |
| Finally | Can of worms | Trivia night | About time |
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Monday, 13th October
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Best to keep your distance from these…
- Green: Nighttime activities.
- Blue: “I thought they’d never leave!”
- Purple: Focus on the last part.
- Extra hint 1: The single words are divided over three themes.
- Extra hint 2: One group is “fun”, and another is “explosive”.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Can of worms
- Green: Trivia night
- Blue: Sayonara
- Purple: American hustle
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups?
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Metaphors for Potentially Volatile Situations
- Green: Bar Events
- Blue: Words After a Welcome Departure
- Purple: Ending With Synonyms for “Swindle”
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Monday, 13th October:
- Yellow: Metaphors for Potentially Volatile Situations (Can of Worms, Hornet’s Nest, Minefield, Pandora’s Box)
- Green: Bar Events (Happy Hour, Karaoke, Live Music, Trivia Night)
- Blue: Words After a Welcome Departure (About Time, Finally, Good Riddance, Sayonara)
- Purple: Ending With Synonyms for “Swindle” (American Hustle, Comic Con, Golden Fleece, Lucky Stiff)
I’ve got to admit, I got distracted by some of the obvious “traps” today, like Pandora’s box and the golden fleece, or Comic Con as an incorrect part of the “events” group.
Another tricky part of today’s puzzle is the danger of misinterpreting the yellow theme as insect-related – which would include all yellow words except “minefield”. I also had some doubts about blue before handing it in, because of “sayonara”. It’s definitely used sarcastically among English-speakers, but of course, it’s not sarcastic at all in origin.
Once I got down to the final words, and excluded “Comic Con” from the green theme, I finally noticed the “con” and “hustle” similarity, leading to the complete purple theme.Do you play online quizzes and puzzles?
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Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints 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 with Wordle!
