Here's your NYT Connections hint for Saturday Sep 12

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

You deserve a decent rest after another long week, but you've got to make sure your streak is safe before you can truly relax. That's what we're here for!

If the Connections puzzle is testing you a little too much on the weekend, we've got all the hints you need to get it done no matter what.

Click here to play today's NYT Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Saturday 12th September

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Pimp your ride.
• 🟩 Green hint: There are plenty of these on Reddit!
• 🟦 Blue hint: There's more than one way to blink.
• 🟪 Purple hint: Four types of warnings.
• Extra hint 1: One group is united by a common second word.
• Extra hint 2: Every group except blue has at least one word containing the letter 'P'

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

• 🟨 Yellow: Fuzzy Dice
• 🟩 Green: Troll
• 🟦 Blue: Cursor
• 🟪 Purple: Nerd

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: Ways to Personalize a Car
• 🟩 Green: People in an Online Forum
• 🟦 Blue: Things That Blink
• 🟪 Purple: ___ Alert

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, 12th September:

• 🟨 Yellow: Ways to Personalize a Car (Bumper Sticker, Fuzzy Dice, Hood Ornament, Vanity Plate)
• 🟩 Green: People in an Online Forum (Lurker, Poster, Spammer, Troll)
• 🟦 Blue: Things That Blink (Cursor, Eyelids, Smoke Detector, Turn Signal)
• 🟪 Purple: ___ Alert (Nerd, Red, Spoiler, Weather)

If you struggled to remove 'smoke detector' from the purple group, you're not alone! At least the yellow and green groups fell into place for me without too much trouble.

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

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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!