NYT Connections hints and answers today, Tuesday Oct 14

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Need a hint for today’s Connections on Tuesday, 14th October? Rather than stare at the 16 words in today’s Connections puzzle, perhaps it’s more fun to have a peek at our hints and speed up the puzzling process. The answers may pop up before you know it.

Whether you’re on day 1 or day 100 of your glorious Connections victory streak, let’s ensure you don’t lose it today!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Tuesday, 14th October
• What are today’s Connections groups?
• What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

Stem	Easel	Absorb	Digest
Anther	Review	Check	Hark
Brief	Hold	Staunch	Lama
Engage	Curb	Outline	Occupy

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 Tuesday, 14th October

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: These words will have you “entranced”.
• Green: Let’s keep it short!
• Blue: These words don’t move.
• Purple: Are they missing something?
• Extra hint 1: “Check” and “review” are in different groups.
• Extra hint 2: “Absorb” and “digest” are in different groups.

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow: Engage
• Green: Outline
• Blue: Check
• Purple: Lama

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: Captivate
• Green: Summary
• Blue: Halt
• Purple: Animals Minus Starting Letter

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 Tuesday, 14th October:

• Yellow: Captivate (Absorb, Engage, Hold, Occupy)
• Green: Summary (Brief, Digest, Outline, Review)
• Blue: Halt (Check, Curb, Staunch, Stem)
• Purple: Animals Minus Starting Letter (Anther, Easel, Hark, Lama)

Is it just me, or was today’s purple Connections theme by far the easiest? It took me a while to spot it, but “lama” with just one “l” missing is almost the same thing, thus clearly hinting at the “animals” theme, and an odd word like “anther” just screams “hidden word theme”, doesn’t it?

The other three, on the other hand, were full of false matches. Review & check, absorb & digest, and hold & staunch were just a few of the distractions that kept me from solving the puzzle.

My breakthrough came when I finally accepted that check & review were in different groups, and I just needed to find synonyms for “summary”. After that, I separated yellow and blue by linking the yellow words to “attention”; being fascinated or entranced by something.