This guide is for a previous day! Are you looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections clues and answers for Thursday, October 17th!

Are you looking for a clue to help you with today’s Connections puzzle on October 16th? Connections can sometimes lead to challenging puzzles that become more complicated the longer you look at them. If you find yourself in this situation, we have put together a collection of tips for you below.

Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by The New York Times (NYT), host 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, 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 fiendishly difficult, chock-full of red herrings, misleading words and little-known trivia. If you are having difficulty solving today’s connection puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers for Wednesday, October 16, 2024.

Below we offer some carefully crafted hints and hints for today’s Connections. We then reveal the four different groups, and finally the Connections answer themselves for those who are tired of wondering how it all fits together.

In this guide:

Connection instructions for Wednesday, October 16th

Here you’ll find a clue for each word group in today’s Connections puzzle, as well as a few other Connections clues to help you find the answer.

Our Connections tips for today are:

• Yellow (easiest): In the future.
• Green (simple): As seen at a tournament.
• Blue (Medium): May appear at breakfast time.
• Purple (hardest): Signs that can be made with fingers.
• Extra note 1: There are no “ways to say goodbye” categories.
• Extra note 2: “Bye” is used here as a noun and not as an exclamation.

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

Yellow (easiest):

NEXT

Green (simple):

ROUND

Blue (Medium):

PEBBLE

Purple (hardest):

TWO

What are today’s Connections 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 connection puzzle, below we’ll show you the four correct connection groups – the themes that connect each set of four words in the connection grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Sometime in the future
• Parts of a tournament setup
• Some breakfast cereal
• What the extended index and middle fingers can represent

Now that you know the themes for the different connections in today’s puzzle, try solving it! If not, please find the full answer below.

Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer is in front of you!

What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle on Wednesday, October 16:

• Sometime in the future: Someday, later, next, soon
• Parts of a tournament setup: Bracket, bye, round, seed
• Some breakfast cereal: Cheerio, Flake, Pebble, Puff
• What the extended index and middle fingers can represent: Peace, Scissors, Two, Victory

You know when you just sit there and stare at a list of words and nothing stands out to you? Yes, that was me today. It didn’t help that Connections went out of its way to fool people into thinking there was a category in which to bow out. With “Peace”, “Cheerio”, “Later” and “Bye” I was convinced. Forgive me for Connections’ lack of success, but I think people should say “Cheerio” more often.

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

What are connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games published by 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 having 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 directly before the word “Figure.”

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the different words together – but be careful, because false connections are often deliberately inserted there to throw you off! To win the game you must find all four connections without making four mistakes. On the fourth mistake the game is over and the answer is displayed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day’s connection puzzle is also assigned a different color, indicating how easy or difficult the connection is to find. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (easy), blue (medium), and purple (most difficult).

That concludes today’s guide to solving the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you are looking for help with Wordle, we also have a list of previous Wordle answers as well as the Wordle clue and answer for Thursday October 17th. You can also check out our list of the best starting words for Wordle or use our Wordle Solver tool to find the answer easily!