Here's your NYT Connections hint for Sunday Sep 13

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

Connections is back at it again with another tricky puzzle. But we're back at it too with another Connections guide!

Whether you're looking for subtle hints or full answers, we've got everything you need to knock another puzzle out of the park.

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Connections hint for Sunday 13th September

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Nothing here has good posture.
• 🟩 Green hint: The Oval Office's guest list.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Abbreviations? Not around here!
• 🟪 Purple hint: The ending is the most important part.
• Extra hint 1: One group has to be heard rather than read.
• Extra hint 2: One group hides its words inside others.

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

• 🟨 Yellow: Droopy
• 🟩 Green: Madison
• 🟦 Blue: Kewpie
• 🟪 Purple: Porridge

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: Lacking in Firmness
• 🟩 Green: U.S. Presidents
• 🟦 Blue: Words That Sound Like Two Letters
• 🟪 Purple: Ending in Elevated Landforms

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 Sunday, 13th September:

• 🟨 Yellow: Lacking in Firmness (Droopy, Flaccid, Sagging, Slack)
• 🟩 Green: U.S. Presidents (Cleveland, Garfield, Grant, Madison)
• 🟦 Blue: Words That Sound Like Two Letters (Empty, Excess, Kewpie, Odie)
• 🟪 Purple: Ending in Elevated Landforms (Doublespeak, Heathcliff, Paramount, Porridge)

The Connections puzzle was full of tricks today! Since the Connections puzzle is usually played in silence, it's easy to miss out on those clues that you can better hear than see, like the blue group today. If there is one hint I could give to make Connections easier, it would be to read the words aloud!

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!