Today’s Connections Tips and Answers for Friday, September 6

Need some tips to lend a hand you solve today’s September 6 Connections puzzle? It’s no problem if you need lend a hand solving these connection puzzles – I need a helping hand half the time myself!

Connections is a word-building game published daily by the New York Times (NYT), host of the ever-popular Wordle puzzle. Created each day by puzzle creator Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, and you must group them into four sets of four, where each group of four words has a common theme.

It’s a straightforward premise, but as many of us know, Connections can sometimes be fiendishly challenging, filled to the brim with confusing clues, confusing words, and little-known tidbits. If you’re having trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, this guide will lend a hand you find the answers for Friday, September 6, 2024.

Below we present some carefully crafted tips and hints for today’s Connections, then we reveal the four different groups, and at the end the Connections themselves provide the answers for those tired of wondering how it all comes together.

In this guide:

Calling tips for Friday, September 6

Here’s a hint for each of the word groups in today’s Connections puzzle, as well as some additional Connections clues to lend a hand you find the answer.

Our connection tips today:

• Yellow (easiest): Words you apply when you want to say “how much” of something you have.
• Green (straightforward): Scenario or event.
• Blue (medium): In the mailbox.
• Purple (most challenging): All of these words are related to another word, which is technically the name of one of the four seasons of the year.
• Bonus tip 1: Affair and Episode belong to the same group.
• Bonus tip 2: For the Purple group, think about what comes after winter. Now think about how this word relates to the other words here.

If you’re looking for more Connections tips today to lend a hand you narrow down your answers, click on the spoiler text below to reveal one word from each group:

Yellow (easiest):

Total

Green (straightforward):

Material

Blue (medium):

Letter

Purple (most challenging):

Geyser

What are Connections’ words today?

Here are 16 connecting words for today:

What are Connections groups today?

If you need an even bigger clue to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four valid Connections groupings — the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections grid together.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Quantity
• Incident
• Items received by mail
• What could “spring” refer to?

Now that you know the themes of the different connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check out the full answer below.

Spoiler alert! Today’s Connections answer is ahead!

What are Connections’ answers today?

Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle from Friday, September 6:

• Quantity: Quantity, Count, Number, Total
• Incident: Romance, Episode, Event, Matter
• Items received by mail: Bill, Card, Catalog, Letter
• What “spring” might refer to: Bounce, Coil, Geyser, Season

It took me a long time to realize that Geyser is technically a spring, hence its connection to other Purple words. That Purple group always gets me! The rest of the connections here weren’t too bad, I have to admit.

Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections question correctly, with or without the lend a hand of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t manage it today, don’t worry – a up-to-date Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle.

What is Connections?

Connections is one of the most popular puzzle games published daily by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The goal 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 example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all characters from Peter Pan. Or, to give another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words that usually appear right before the word “Figure”.

Your task is to guess what motives connect the different words – but be careful, because there are often deliberately placed misleading clues to confuse you! To win the game, you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. On the fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in the Connections puzzle is also assigned a different color each day, representing how straightforward or challenging it is to find the Connection. These colors are: Yellow (easiest), Green (straightforward), Blue (medium), and Purple (hardest).

That wraps up today’s guide on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for lend a hand with Wordle, we also have our list of Wordle past answers for you, as well as a Wordle clue and answer for Friday September 6. You can also check out our list of the best Wordle starters or apply our Wordle Solver to easily find the answer!