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Here's your NYT Connections hint for Saturday Sep 5

Read on for help with Connections #1181.

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Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today's? Check out the Connections hint for Tuesday 29th September!

It's a new day and you know what that means. There's a whole new brain teaser waiting for you. And that's not where the good news ends!

There's also a new Connections Companion here waiting for you, so you can keep your streak going for another day.

Click here to play today's NYT Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Saturday 5th September

Here are your Connections hints for today:

  • 🟨 Yellow hint: The floor isn't moving, you are.
  • 🟩 Green hint: Tweet tweet.
  • 🟦 Blue hint: The front half is enough to change something's identity.
  • πŸŸͺ Purple hint: Take a bite off the end and read it again.
  • Extra hint 1: The words in one group share a common second word.
  • Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'B'

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

  • 🟨 Yellow: Toddle
  • 🟩 Green: Gobble
  • 🟦 Blue: Bobble
  • πŸŸͺ Purple: Cobble

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

Today's Connections groups revealed

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: Move Unsteadily
  • 🟩 Green: Bird Onomatopoeia
  • 🟦 Blue: ___head
  • πŸŸͺ Purple: Desserts Minus Last 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!

Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Saturday, 5th September:

  • 🟨 Yellow: Move Unsteadily (Sway, Toddle, Totter, Wobble)
  • 🟩 Green: Bird Onomatopoeia (Coo, Gobble, Honk, Warble)
  • 🟦 Blue: ___head (Bobble, Hammer, Jug, Sleepy)
  • πŸŸͺ Purple: Desserts Minus Last Letter (Cobble, Pi, Tar, Tort)

If you got stuck trying to combine the rhyming 'obble' words, you're not alone. Most people probably tried that at least once! We could form a club. Or an army...

Let us know in the comments below how you found today's puzzle! Here's my grid:

🟨🟩🟦πŸŸͺ
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🟦🟦🟦🟦
πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ

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!

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