NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Oct 8
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Need a hint for today’s Connections on Wednesday, 8th October? Some days you start the Connections puzzle full of hope, only to get crushed by ridiculously difficult themes. Sounds dramatic, but that’s life for a Connections player.
Thanks to this Connections guide, however, hope can be restored. Let’s have another go at today’s puzzle challenge together.
In this guide:
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Cream | Alternative | Pearl | River |
| Best | Eggshell | Oyster | Garage |
| Nail | Gloss | Select | Arena |
| Classic | Elite | Flower | Matte |
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 Wednesday, 8th October
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: They’re the opposite of “the worst”.
- Green: See any music?
- Blue: Look for decorative surfaces.
- Purple: Can you add some furniture?
- Extra hint 1: Every theme contains at least one word starting with a vowel.
- Extra hint 2: “Pearl” and “oyster” 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: Select
- Green: Classic
- Blue: Gloss
- Purple: Flower
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: Finest
- Green: Rock Music Subgenres
- Blue: Paint Finishes
- Purple: Kinds of Beds
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 Wednesday, 8th October:
- Yellow: Finest (Best, Cream, Elite, Select)
- Green: Rock Music Subgenres (Alternative, Arena, Classic, Garage)
- Blue: Paint Finishes (Eggshell, Gloss, Matte, Pearl)
- Purple: Kinds of Beds (Flower, Nail, Oyster, River)
I kept getting super close to solving today’s themes, but then got stuck on the final words. First there were the “paint finishes” (I was thinking of “nail polish” myself, but close enough), which made the doubt whether “eggshell” belonged there instead of “cream” or “flower”.
Then there were the rock genres, which I caught very quickly only to miss the fourth member; “arena”. Then, I found the “beds”, but without “nail bed”, which is ironic considering my earlier success with nail polish.
I did sort it out eventually, but I had to remove the yellow theme first – luckily, that one didn’t give me much of a headache in today’s Connections puzzle.
